The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively.

Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...That's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.

You are being discipled by something.

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.