Preaching in the Spirit Quotes

“If we believe that Jesus is at work in the congregation before we are, if we believe he is more actively committed to reaching his people than we are, then we will keep our eyes open to his activity in the “disturbances” and the “annoyances” that come our way, so that we can work with him.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Impression without expression means depression. With expression, it becomes  liberation.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“We should serve God by ministering to our people, rather than serving our people by telling them about God.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Christ came to bring forgiveness of sins.Ifwe are to be sent in his place, then we too become instruments through which God’s forgiveness comes to the world: If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven (John 20:23). We cannot forgive sins. Only God can do that. But we can be the means through which the gospel of forgiveness comes to a sinful world. We must remember that we are here in Christ’s stead.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“So the believer finds that the flesh is as sterile (i.e., unfruitful) after conversion as it was before. Sometime in the believer’s life there must be a crucifixion of the self, which brings him to the end of any confidence in himself, if he is to serve God acceptably. We must come to the end of ourselves so that the Spirit may work without hindrance in our lives.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“These are not your sufferings; they are not beating you. These are my sufferings: All I ask of you is the loan of your body.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“I had found an intimacy with Jesus that I was afraid I would lose if I did not do what he wanted me to do.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Fourth, we must trust the Spirit to fill us now.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Third, we must be willing for him to fill and possess us.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Second, we must believe that the Holy Spirit not only can fill and cleanse our spirits, but will.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“How To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit First, we must recognize our need.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“When the Spirit can get a channel, the channel does not count as much as the Spirit.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“First, Jesus explains who the Holy Spirit is. He is another Counselor who will take Christ’s place in their lives (John 14:16).”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“The Holy Spirit is to be their Teacher (John 14:25–26).”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“John 6:63, in which Jesus says, “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.” This sums up the biblical teaching that the life our people need cannot come from us but is given only by the Spirit.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“If a preacher is to be a true messenger of God, he must have the Holy Spirit in his life.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Jesus forces us to compare ourselves with him. His presence brings us to confess our guilt, not to moralize about the guilt of others.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“But eternal fruit comes when Christ is present in the service and when the pastor’s witness matches that of the Spirit of God.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“He finds his fulfillment in submission to his Father, which means laying down his life for his friends. His fulfillment is not in doing his own will, in self-realization; it is in other directedness. In other words, his fulfillment is found in love. And his fulfillment is the model for ours.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Western men and women are masters of nature and of technology, but not of themselves. Because they no longer know God, they cannot know themselves.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Life ceases to make sense when we turn away from God and the Scriptures. Then we can only compare ourselves with ourselves, and the qualitative differences between us are relative. Only when we include God in our thinking do we have a basis for making firm moral decisions.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“if the proclamation of God’s Word doesn’t come out of an intimate walk with him, it will be empty words instead of the living Word.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“The Spirit makes a minister realize that God alone gives the increase; there is a sense of sola gratia in ministry as real as in salvation, so that the preacher wants Christ to be preeminent.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“When the minister becomes the pivot around which his ministry revolves, the results are deadly.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“If a pastor is not willing to expose himself to the hurts of his people, he has not taken Christ as his pattern.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“If a pastor’s ministry involves no personal identification with the lives of his parishioners, it really isn’t Christian ministry in the full sense of that term.”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit

“Whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me” (John 13:20)?”
― Dennis F. Kinlaw, Preaching in the Spirit