Michael

“The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

“And here is the edge: Christians are called to live in the world but not live like the world. Christians are called to dine with sinners but not sin with sinners. But either way, when Christians throw their lot in with Jesus, we lose the rights to protect our own reputation.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

“When the church becomes accidental to Christianity, the weekly gathering becomes merely a social opportunity to confirm our prior personal experience with God.  We've lost the sense of the church as the center of our corporate identity because we've lost a sense of any corporate identity at all.”
― Kaitlyn Schiess, The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor

“God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him.”
― Hudson Taylor