Hybels right now:
“It’s easier than you think it is for churches to ‘lose the plot’ of what’s most important.
“Churches are in the life transformation business. Churches are supposed to turn hateful people into loving people, selfish people into loving people, prejudiced people into radically inclusive people. We are in the people transformation business. Now, church leaders learn very early on that there is only one power sufficient to actually do this — the power of the gospel. The power of the good news of Christianity. And we all know what the good news is, don’t we? Don’t we? Don’t be so sure. Some of us can get fuzzy about the very message that transformed our own lives, about what that message actually is.
“I would challenge you to do another exercise that I’ve been challenging our people to do. You say to your elders, your staff, whatever people you want to, you say in five words, in five words you explain, or summarize, what the central message of Christianity is. What are the five words that best describe the good news of Jesus Christ?”