Skepticism Can Keep Us From

I Hate How Hard Spiritual Transformation Is And How Long It Takes. I Hate Thinking About How Many People Have Gone To Church For Decades And Remain Joyless Or Judgmental Or Bitter Or Superior.

Spiritual Formation Is For Everyone. Just As There Is An 'outer You' That Is Being Formed And Shaped All The Time, Like It Or Not, By Accident Or On Purpose, So There Is An 'inner You.' You Have A Spirit. And It's Constantly Being Shaped And Tugged At: By What You Hear And Watch And Say And Read And Think And Experience.

The Decision To Grow Always Involves A Choice Between Risk And Comfort. This Means That To Be A Follower Of Jesus, You Must Renounce Comfort As The Ultimate Value Of Your Life.

Our Beliefs Are Not Just Estimates Of Probabilities. They Are Also The Instruments That Guide Our Actions.

If Ever There Were A True "just As I Am" Church, If Ever There Were A Community Where Everybody Could Bring All Their Baggage And Brokenness With Them Without Neat And Tidy Happy Endings Quite Yet, If Ever There Was A Group Where Everyone Was Loved And No One Pretended - We Could Not Make Enough Room Inside The Building.