Leading With Love Quotes

“Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading With Love

“Instructing people to obey Christ’s commands is part of the Great Commission. It’s not enough to teach the facts about Christ, we are to teach, exhort, and train disciples to obey and live according to the commands of Christ.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (now called the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) believed that if money could motivate the merchants of England to cross life-threatening oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel?”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading With Love

“The nature of Christian love is to do the will of God. Obeying the Father was a delight for Jesus because he loved his Father:”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“If money could motivate the merchants of England to cross death-defying oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of the loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate the missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel?”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading With Love

“Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading With Love

“Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading With Love

“Leaders who think that growth in grace comes by knowing the Word of God without doing it will produce congregations of passive Christians which resemble human beings that eat too much and exercise too little.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“We are in the business of teaching and modeling obedience to God.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“This is in no way to imply that love ignores or condones sin. Love covers a multitude of sins, not all sins. At times, love requires exposure and discipline of sin for the welfare of an individual as well as the church. Love knows when to cover and when to expose for the purpose of redemption and restoration.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Love covers all kinds of offenses, hurts, annoyances, disappointments, and sins that we all suffer because of others. Only love has the power to freely and repeatedly forgive, to truly seek to understand people’s weaknesses and complexities, to put things into proper perspective, and to put a blanket over other people’s faults.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“As Anthony Thiselton puts it, “The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“If you are going to bore people, don’t bore them with the Gospel. Bore them with calculus, bore them with earth science, bore them with world history. But it is a sin to bore people with the Gospel.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“If we expect to challenge the hearts and minds of men and women of the next generation, our hearts and minds must be challenged also. We cannot influence people for God if we are not learning, changing, and growing. Teachers who love God and love to study his Word reproduce this love in others.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Tenderness will win hearts so hardened that nothing else can move them. Truth spoken in love goes directly to the heart of the hearer and calls forth a kind response…. It overcomes prejudice and hardness.… It melts and wins where the most logical argument, the most terrible warning, and the severest threatening would produce no more impression than the falling of dew upon a block of granite.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“John Oman warns, “unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God’s message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“As we grow in disciplined, self-sacrificing love, so we will grow in intercessory prayer. Superficially fervent prayers devoid of such love are finally phony, hollow, shallow.5”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Paul’s prayer is the product of his passion for people. His unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Here is a Christian so committed to the well-being of other Christians, especially new Christians, that he is simply burning up inside to be with them, to help them, to nurture them, to feed them, to stabilize them, to establish an adequate foundation for them. Small wonder, then, that he devotes himself to praying for them when he finds he cannot visit them personally.4”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“What is both surprising and depressing is the sheer prayerlessness that characterizes so much of the Western church. It is surprising, because it is out of step with the Bible that portrays what Christian living should be; it is depressing, because it frequently coexists with abounding Christian activity that somehow seems hollow, frivolous, and superficial.10”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“Helga Henry, the wife of the renowned theologian Carl F. H. Henry, reminds us that “Christian hospitality is not a matter of choice; it is not a matter of money; it is not a matter of age, social standing, sex, or personality. Christian hospitality is a matter of obedience to”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“You don’t have to be a preacher or have years of training to use your home to love and serve people.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“A cold, unwelcoming church contradicts the gospel message.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“the pagan Caecilius criticized the Christians because “hardly have they met when they love each other.... Indiscriminately they call each other brother and sister.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love

“The work of feeding and tending sheep is hard work, arduous work, and love for the sheep alone will not do it; you must have a consuming love for the Great Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love