Courage Frees Us From The Fears That

You Are An Artist. What Work Of Art Will You Leave Behind?

God Allows And At Times Causes Us To Go Through The Kinds Of Circumstances That Strip Away All Falsehood And Leave Us With Our Real Selves. God's Ultimate Intent Is Not To Leave Us Faithless, But To Leave Us Faith-full. There Are Few Things As Exhilarating As Going Through The Fire And Finding That You Had The Resilience To Make It Through. All Of Us Wonder At Times Whether We Have What It Takes. God Wants To Bring Us To A Place Where We Have No Doubt Of The Work He Has Done Within Us.

The Barbarian Way Was, In Some Sense, Trying To Create A Volatile Fuel To Get People To Step Out And Act. It's Pretty Hard To Get A Whole Group Of People Moving Together As Individuals Who Are Stepping Into A More Mystical, Faith-oriented, Dynamic Kind Of Experience With Christ. So, I Think Barbarian Way Was My Attempt To Say, "look, Underneath What Looks Like Invention, Innovation And Creativity Is Really A Core Mysticism That Hears From God, And What Is Fueling This Is Something Really Ancient." That's What Was Really The Core Of The Barbarian Way.

You Cannot Wash The Feet Of A Dirty World If You Refuse To Touch It

The Church Must Acclimate To A Changing World, Or She Will Destine Herself To Irrelevance Or Even Extinction. ...one Of Those Dramatic Changes In Our Environment Is The Shift From Words To Images. To Do Church In A Way That Is Entirely Text Driven Is The Kiss Of Death.