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“What if Christianity is bigger than ethics?” Gil asked. “What if it’s not about good people getting better but about dead people coming to life? What if it’s not about man seeking God but God seeking man? What if it’s not about how people view God but how God views us? What if Christianity isn’t about you and me and everyone else in the first place? Those are the questions I hope you ask. They’re worth wrestling with.”
“Don’t trust in your strength, because there is such a thing as pride. Don’t despair in your weakness, because there is such a thing as forgiveness.”
“Augustine was awed by the truth that God reveals Himself to us. Listen here: ‘And, when You are poured out on us, You are not thereby brought down; rather, we are uplifted.’ ”
‘You were always by me, mercifully angry and flavoring all my unlawful pleasures with bitter discontent, in order that I might seek pleasures free from discontent. But where could I find such pleasure except in You, O Lord—except in You, who teaches us by sorrow, who wounds us to heal us, and kills us, that we might not die apart from You.’ ”
People rarely fail to evangelize because of their intellectual questions. Failure to evangelize is almost always a worship problem.
Love can’t stop talking about the beloved. Fix the worship problem, and evangelism starts coming naturally.”
“Of course. King Jesus commissioned us to call all people everywhere to repentance and faith. People from every tongue, tribe, and nation. People of every color, ethnicity, and background. People from every religion. We evangelize because the call to salvation is inclusive.”
You don’t always choose your temptations, but you do choose your behavior.”
We are not defined by our temptations. We are defined by our redemption.”
A Christian is not defined by the sins of the past or the struggles of the present but by the vision of the future.”
Authenticity isn’t accepting your sins. It’s admitting your sins and then being true to the person King Jesus has declared you to be.”
‘For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.’ Isn’t that a glorious promise? That God won’t ever bring up our sin again? Takes a lifetime of determination to get that truth planted deep in your heart. We commit to memory. God commits to forgetfulness.”
“Rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”
