I'm A Tennessee Boy. I Grew Up

Faith Is Not Accepting The World As It Is But Insisting On Building The World God Wants.

There Is A Difference Between Feeding Someone And Eating Dinner With Them. If Every Christian At Home Just Made Room For The Stranger We Would End Homelessness Overnight.

There Are Congregations On Nearly Every Corner. I'm Not Sure We Need More Churches. What We Need Is A Church. I Say One Church Is Better Than Fifty. I Have Tried To Remove The Plural Form Churches From My Vocabulary, Training Myself To Think Of The Church As Christ Did, And As The Early Christians Did. The Metaphors For Her Are Always Singular - A Body, A Bride. I Heard One Gospel Preacher Say It Like This, As He Really Wound Up And Broke A Sweat: "we've Got To Unite Ourselves As One Body. Because Jesus Is Coming Back, And He's Coming Back For A Bride Not A Harem.

Discontentment Is A Gift. It's The Stuff That Changes The World.

One By One, These Disciples Would Infect The Nations With Grace. It Wasn't A Call To Take The Sword Or The Throne And Force The World To Bow. Rather, They Were To Live The Contagious Love Of God, To Woo The Nations Into A New Future.