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• Youthful passions overflowing into activities often result in commotion and agitation.
  
  -Illustration: An evening revival at Baylor
  University produces a destructive sense of urgency in
  several students.
  
  -Illustration: A story of students at Princeton
  Theological Seminary who go too far in becoming fools
  for Christ.
• Youthful passions often drive those new to the ministry.
  
  -Illustration: Killinger describes several
  surreal situations from his first year of ministry,
  including the midnight conversion of a construction
  worker and a baptismal mishap.

• The heroes of God’s kingdom are those who have committed to the long haul.
  
  -Illustration: In the Old West, cowboys would
  break new steers by attaching them to calm, persistent
  burros.
• The eternity of God stands in contrast to the immediacy of youthful passions.

• Patience helps us to avoid destroying the good along with the bad.
• The forgiveness and love modeled by Jesus on the cross are necessary for ministry, but must be developed over time.
  
  -Illustration: A father is able to laugh when he
  discovers that his children (now grown) used to smoke
  cigarettes and play cards in the family shed.

• It is God’s responsibility to bring about his kingdom in his own timing.
• We can love the world by introducing its people to Jesus, and making their suffering more bearable.
  
  -Illustration: A nurse knows that patients can
  be encouraged by a small mirror that reflects something
  new from the outside world.
• Big Idea: Christians can change the world by loving it patiently until it is ready to experience the new life offered by Jesus.
  
  -Illustration: One of Killinger’s parishioners
  was not ready to really hear his sermons on the
  afterlife until she was diagnosed with lung cancer.