Don't Call it a Comeback Quotes

“If nothing of spiritual significance is happening in your church, your Bible study, your small group, or your family, it may be because nothing spiritually significant is happening in your life. I love the line from Robert Murray M’Cheyne: “My people’s greatest need is my personal holiness.” I’ve given that advice to others dozens of times, and I’ve repeated it to myself a hundred times. Almost my whole philosophy of ministry is summed up in M’Cheyne’s words. My congregation needs me to be humble before they need me to be smart. They need me to be honest more than they need me to be a dynamic leader. They need me to be teachable more than they need me to teach at conferences. If your walk matches your talk, if your faith costs you something, if being a Christian is more than a cultural garb, they will listen to you.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“Meditating on the self-sufficient power and plentitude of God should shut our mouths whenever we’re tempted to think that God owes us,”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“God’s grace saves us from ourselves.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“But this is my greatest need and yours: to know God, love God, delight in God, and make much of God.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“wristband). The gospel is not a message about what we need to do for God, but about what God has done for us. So get them with the good news about who God is and what he has done for us.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“People need to see that God is the all-consuming reality in our lives. Our sincerity and earnestness in worship matter ten times more than the style we use to display our sincerity and earnestness.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“Grab them with passion. Win them with love. Hold them with holiness. Challenge them with truth. Amaze them with God.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“Sanctification is at base a tenacious grip on the robe of Christ, a wrestling with the Lord to bless us, a sojourn in the valley of death in pursuit of a city we cannot see.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“Fueling all of our conflict against Satan is prayer: we are to pray “at all times in the Spirit” for the promotion and success of the gospel (Eph. 6:18). We need to pray, as 1 Thessalonians 5:17 also teaches, “without ceasing.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“But when we believe the gospel, and the Holy Spirit resides in us, we are free to experience the explosive current of holiness that flows from the Godhead into the soul of a believer.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“We need to saturate our minds and hearts with the riches of biblical theology, such that we think and act from a profoundly scriptural base. We need to be in the Word constantly. We need also to pray hard and regularly, asking God to give us wisdom for our daily lives and power to kill our nagging sins. We need to continually reapply the gospel to our specific sins and weaknesses.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“Even though this seems rather plain, we Christians can easily become confused about what sanctification is. Instead of emphasizing its connection to the Lord and his Word, we can make it merely about certain external behaviors and mind-sets, select methods and practices.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“Though we still sin, we are nevertheless considered righteous, perfectly loved and accepted by our Father in heaven.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day

“It’s the guilt that makes the cross necessary. Not the feeling of guilt, but the reality of it.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Don't Call it a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day