I admire a preacher who can throw out a simple phrase that sticks long after. Some of my personal favorites:
- The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post
- God doesn’t call us to succeed; He calls us to obey
I just returned from the annual meeting of our American Baptist Churches of New Jersey, where I picked up one more–from Romal Tune (comparing churches and gangs), on our tendency to think, “if I can reach just one person.”
“You want just one? We get to keep the 99!”
Lord God, let’s go for the full hundred!
