Christian mission means implementing the victory that Jesus won on the cross. Everything else follows from this.

The Christians would stay and nurse people. Sometimes they caught the disease and died. People were astonished. What was that about? Oh, they replied, we are followers of this man Jesus. He put his life on the line to save us. So that's what we do as well.

resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world. Already

the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.

Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.