A Call to Resurgence Quotes

“We need to avoid the ditch on the left, where we don’t call sin a sin, as well as the ditch on the right, where we are angry culture warriors battling unbelievers instead of evangelizing them.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“All of a Christian’s life is one of repentance.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“We need more Spirit-empowered Christians who take seriously their call to witness to God’s work in this world, and to do so in unity with other Christians, even if they don’t agree on some secondary matters.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“You probably like discernment websites run from caves deep in the woods; the words illuminati, Armageddon, last days, and one-world order; not having any fun; trying to connect current events to the book of Daniel; and sketching out an end times chart on an ammo box while your wife churns butter and your kids save up enough money to run away from home.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don’t do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, “It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.”[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Truthless times need timeless truths.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“It’s amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“we have to be known for who and what we are for more than who or what we are against. If we fail, Christianity will have a funeral rather than a future.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The main point of a prayer meeting is not to move God but to allow God to move us. The Bible says we Christians grieve, quench, and resist the Holy Spirit.[97] So, we pray to repent of our sin against him and align our will with his. The Spirit is always available to us, and in prayer we make ourselves available to him.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Today, we live in a culture that is less concerned with excellence and more concerned with authenticity. That’s why there are more than two hundred reality TV shows.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Contextualization is about showing the relevance of the gospel, not making the gospel relevant. That’s the essence of contextualization.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Jude 1:3 commands us to “contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (emphasis added). Quite frankly, there are certain things that we need to just adhere to and fight for with deep passion and conviction—the national border issues, as we discussed in chapter 4.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“I, however, am also a fan of riot evangelism. As we read the book of Acts, we see that the church comes into being through a Spirit-empowered sermon by Peter on the day of Pentecost and not through some guy spending six months playing checkers with people, hoping to somehow earn the right to share the gospel.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“To live is Christ, and to die is gain.”[213]”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and pray for our brothers and sisters around the world.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The truth of the gospel is timeless, and there are still sermons to be preached, sinners to be reached, churches to be planted, afflicted people to be comforted, and comfortable people to be afflicted. Our means is the Spirit’s power through the church, our message is the gospel, and our mission is eternal.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“to have a future instead of a funeral, various tribes must strive to obey Ephesians 4:3, where Paul commands us to be “eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“I cannot think of any Christian person, family, church, ministry, or tribe that would not benefit from more Jesus!”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“The Bible must not be read as a job description for motivated, self-disciplined, devoutly religious people to be their own heroes and saviors of their souls. It must be read as the story of guilty sinners and self-righteous hypocrites, visited by a perfect God”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“We believe that the local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and that the universal church is all of God’s people in all times and places.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“we want non-Christians to understand the essentials of our faith so that whether they receive or reject Jesus,”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Now more than ever God’s people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“the Bible as God’s perfect and authoritative Word one God in three persons (Trinity) human sinfulness by nature and by choice Jesus as fully God and fully man who lived without sin, died in our place for our sins, and rose from the dead salvation bestowed by the grace of God when a sinner turns from sin and trusts in Jesus alone through faith new birth through the Holy Spirit eternal heaven for believers and eternal hell for unbelievers”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?

“Everyone is in a tribe, and the sooner we realize we are not each unique, like a snowflake—a special, one-of-a-kind person, just like Mama said—the sooner we will make sense of ourselves and the spiritual cul-de-sac we call home. You are likely not unique, particularly special,”
― Mark Driscoll, A Call to Resurgence: Will Christianity Have a Funeral or a Future?