You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.
Never trust a theologian who doesn't have a sense of humor.
Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean, the audience knows, and if you give them a Biblical story, you better get it right.
There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.
