When the Christian church is comfortable and cultural, she tends to be weak. When she is uncomfortable and countercultural, she tends to be strong.

Both the Old and New Testaments consistently forbid homosexual practice.

I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible Church—that is his plain duty according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, otherwise they might go about one by one. They are sheep and, therefore, they should be in flocks.

“If we approached conflict in marriage the way we approach conflict in the church, we would have a 100 percent divorce rate,”

Where division might normally reign, unity should instead lead to an uncommon love, where believers listen to and bear with one another.

Cruciform love is serving and protecting our gay and lesbian neighbors, combating racism and hateful speech of all sorts, and advocating for the image-of-God dignity of every human being. It is embracing the homeless person despite the smell, healing the wounds of a soldier even if he is unjustly arresting us (Luke 22:51), and loving those we disag

if Christians only ever worshiped when their hearts were “in it” fully, worship would rarely happen. Sometimes “going through the motions” is precisely what we must do. The bodily motions of worship—singing, raising your hands, kneeling, closing your eyes—shape us significantly, even when we don’t feel like they are.

A unified church is one of the strongest evidences of the truth of the gospel.

“Christianity isn’t collapsing; it’s being clarified,” wrote Ed Stetzer