We're disappointed, because so many people at this place have put so much into it. It's sobering to hear people tell you why they don't agree with you.

Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?

But at some point you've got to put the gun on the table.

Those are very sobering numbers.

It was very sobering but in a way uplifting,

You'll find some heartening and some sobering conclusions.