love people and serve them.

The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise. Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

Love is a commitment. Love is not just saying something, but doing something about what you say. Anybody can say the word, but few actually say it and live it.

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

But the true test of a church—and of a man—is not how good it looks, but the kind of impact it makes in the community.

The theory-practice dichotomy that still bedevils many a theological curriculum serves neither seminary nor church. There is a debilitating dichotomy between what Christians believe (doctrine) and how they live their lives (discipleship).

Doctrine is less theoretical than it is theatrical, a matter of doing—speaking and showing—what we have heard and understood.

when the church responds to the word of God as it ought, the church demonstrates the love of God and the mind of Christ, in word and in deed. Just as the church comes to understand the love of God by attending to the story of Jesus and getting caught up in the gospel story, so the church in turn renders that story intelligible when it lives out the truth of the gospel.

If actions speak louder than words, it is because they lend the weight of behavior (real assent) to belief (nominal assent).

does belief that fails to issue in behavior count as genuine witness (and understanding) or not?

Theology isn't really theology for us until we live it.