Our culture has grown increasingly uneasy with the idea of absolute truth.

helpful content is content presented in a way that is age- and stage-of-life specific.

In the pre-service experience, comfortable takes precedence over theological.

When you look at the stage, what comes to mind? What concerns you? What do you wish you knew? What do you hope doesn’t happen? What would make you more comfortable right now? What information would you like to see pop up on the screen?

Technically it is incorrect to say, “The Bible says …” or “The Bible teaches….” The Bible doesn’t really say or teach anything.

Jesus was not content to simply say what was true. Being right was not enough. Being biblical was not enough. Being exegetically correct was not enough. That was not his purpose in coming. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. And he communicated to that end.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

The desire to create order from chaos is a vestige of the thumbprint of God on our souls.

Craig Groeschel says: “To reach people no one else is reaching, we must do things no one else is doing.”