The World-Tilting Gospel Quotes

“How does "Let go and let God" measure up against Scripture? Remember, the test isn't what sounds deep, what sounds holy, or even what makes sense to us. For the Christian, the test is Scripture.”
― Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight

“The Holy Spirit of God loves to make sure that everything is all about Jesus Christ. On that basis, I will say this categorically and emphatically, and only just barely resist the temptation to say it twice:   Show me a person obsessed with the Holy Spirit and His gifts (real or imagined), and I will show you a person not filled with the Holy Spirit.   Show me a person focused on the person and work of Jesus Christ—never tiring of learning about Him, thinking about Him, boasting of Him, speaking about and for and to Him, thrilled and entranced with His perfections and beauty, finding ways to serve and exalt Him, tirelessly exploring ways to spend and be spent for Him, growing in character to be more and more like Him—and I will show you a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit.  ”
― Dan Phillips, The World Tilting Gospel

“A cross is not where you go to work out, as if to build up what is already there. A cross is where you go to die, which is the final negation of the sin-riddled nature we inherit from Adam.”
― Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight

“Sin so contaminates every area of our being that deeds done in religious service are tainted with self-love, self-seeking, self-worship...Not only do our evil deeds comdemn us, even our moral deeds damn us.”
― Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight

“If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.”
― Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight

“O the depth of the riches of the wisdom of God, thus to make justice and mercy to kiss each other!”
― Dan Phillips, The World Tilting Gospel

“God’s real grace is a gutsy, dynamic, transformative power. No one who receives this grace remains the same. It transforms and motivates. No transformation = no grace. If grace has not transformed your life to some degree, then grace has not saved your soul, either.”
― Dan Phillips, The World Tilting Gospel

“the road of this new life is very rocky and bumpy. We seem to go two steps forward, six back, eight forward, one back . . . It’s wearing, and wearying. But we are going somewhere. This new life, now humble and lowly, will burst forth into dazzling splendor one day. We who are in Christ are headed for a definite and assured destination. When Christ returns, when He resurrects dead believers and transforms living believers (1 Thess. 4:16–17), then we will fully bear His image, with no distortions or cracks or scars (1 Cor. 15:49). We will see Him, and that sight will utterly and finally transform us to His likeness (1 John 3:2). That glorious goal is set and assured the moment we are born again.”
― Dan Phillips, The World Tilting Gospel