one of those new voices to my life came in quickly at the congress on evangelism last week. rev. tyrone gordon of saint luke's community united methodist church gave the opening worship sermon. some little quot-ables that i jotted down. he was preaching a sermon called "who said you could do that?" based on acts 4.

• most of our christianity is nothing but talk
• as long as we preach a comfy Jesus we will get along just fine
• it got them IN trouble, before it got them out of trouble
• (holding up the bible) this tells me i don't need permission, i already have the authority