We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.