Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.

The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations.

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and orthodox churches. Darkness indicates that something serious is happening.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.