I think most Reformed folk have learned habits of worship that effectively constrain the sovereignty of God by adopting highly defined and narrow expectations of the Spirit’s operations. I long for a kind of “Pentecostalized” Reformed spirituality that expects the sovereign Lord to show up in ways that might surprise us.”
James K. A. Smith
“Teaching A Calvinist To Dance” Christianity Today, May 2008

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
(This could also apply to other organizational structures, such as the church.)

Sixty percent of Christians are chicks and the forty percent that are dudes are still sort of chicks.

Mark Driscoll, Pastor Seattle Mars Hill Church

The Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People.

In the Garden of Paradise, man hid from God in the garden; now man hides within himself.
~ Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) ~