Sublime

Andy Stanley, Johnny Carson, Howard Hendricks, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham,

We Christians are in the mess. This is vitally important. Not much good will happen when we move toward the mess if we don’t get this right. We don’t need to drive across town to find it. We don’t need to visit our unchurched neighbors across the street to encounter it. We need only look at our own hearts, our own families, our own lives. If we

As a speaker, you can use the “should” approach and make people feel guilty, but it doesn’t produce passionate followers of Jesus Christ. It merely produces compliant, guilt-driven church people. And once that guilt-based approach to faith gets a hold of you, it’s tough to find your way back to grace.

Christ clarifies and specifies the nature, aim, and trustworthiness of all God’s dealings with us because Christ is where those dealings with us come to ultimate fruition.

Since Christ is our model for personal ministry, we too want to understand people so that we can serve him in their lives. We too must be committed to entering their worlds. We can begin by taking the time to ask good questions and listen well. Our hope is that others would seek us out and share more of their true struggles, so that they may find,