Be the Message Quotes

“So let’s put two and two and two together. Jesus is the Word. The Word is the gospel. Christ, the Word, lives in you. Translation: You are the gospel.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

“The church is so much more than words; the church is the gospel lived out in community.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

“Ultimately a life message shouts more clearly and loudly than a brand message. Your image may communicate an outward brand, but your life shouts the real inner message.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

“Your life is a message. My life is a message. Whether we’re Christian or not, we convey a message to those around us simply by the way we live.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

“Being the gospel always requires us to step out of our world and into someone else’s. It will require you to leave your comfort zone and step into someone else’s hardship and mess.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

“The messages we communicate by our lifestyles are the most powerful messages we send. People are watching and listening. Not to the messages we wish we could give, but to the ones we can’t help but give—what we show them by the way we conduct our everyday lives.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action

“Spend five minutes in silence before God, allowing Him to restore your soul. This practice may feel uncomfortable at first. Five minutes may feel like an hour. But you have to detox from noise addiction so you can hear the divine whisper of God.”
― Kerry Shook, Be the Message: Taking Your Faith Beyond Words to a Life of Action