People who were nothing like Jesus...liked Jesus. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him”
-Andy Stanley

“I began to understand my congregation as a gathering of people that requires a context as large as the Bible itself if we are all to deal with ambiguities of life in the actual circumstances in which people live them… For me, my congregation would become a work-in-progress - a novel in which everyone and everything is connected in a salvation story in which Jesus has the last word. No reductions to stereotype”
-Eugene Peterson