The church is in the hope business.
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
