“God's highest will for our lives is communion with him. A legalistically faultless

life lived without fellowship with God would be hollow. But a flawed life which struggles to maintain communion with God is still pleasing to him and may be full of vital spirituality.” —RichardLovelace, Renewal as a Way of Life

“We had supposed our lives were so utterly ordinary. Sin-habits dull

our free faith into stodgy moralism and respectable boredom;

then crisis rips the veneer of cliché off everyday routines and reveals the

side-by-side splendors and terrors of heaven and hell. Apocalypse

is arson—it secretly sets a fire in the imagination that boils the fat

out of an obese culture-religion and renders a clear gospel love,

a pure gospel hope, a purged gospel faith.”

—Eugene Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor