1. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
  2. Increasingly, to forgive is seen as winking at evil, as shrugging one’s moral shoulders, and as being complicit.
  3. Finding the balance between indifferentism and obsessiveness has never been easy, and it’s especially difficult in our environment.
  4. God excludes our boasting out of his abundant mercy.