One of the things I have constantly tried to do as a pastor is to
lift up apparent opposites that don’t need to be opposite. I do not want
us to be a lopsided church that excels in one kind of virtue at the
expense of other virtues.
Obviously, we won’t be able to do all things equally well as a
church, just like you cannot do all things equally well as an
individual. But my hope is that University Reformed Church could be
marked by diverse excellencies: grace and truth, logical precision and
warmhearted passion, careful thinking and compassionate feeling, strong
theology and tender love, Christian liberty and spiritual discipline,
congregational care and committed outreach, appreciation for businessmen
and entrepreneurs and advocacy for social justice, interest in local
evangelism and interest in world missions, excellence without elitism,
unity without uniformity, diversity without doctrinal infidelity,
ambition without arrogance, and contentment without complacency. Continue at Kevin DeYoung
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