There Are Some Things To Die For

Somehow Jesus's Reputation Has Survived All The Embarrassing Things That Christians Have Done In His Name.

God Comforts The Disturbed And Disturbs The Comfortable.

There Is An Innocence Or Purity That We See In Renewals And In The Mennonite Church And A New An Invigorated Civil Rights Movement.

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.

The End Of War Begins With People Who Believe That Another World Is Possible And That Another Empire Has Already Interrupted Time And Space And Is Taking Over This Earth With The Dreams Of God.