Gospel Fluency Quotes

“People need to be deeply affected by the incredible news of Jesus on a daily basis. What affects you greatly creates in you great affections. And those affections lead you to express verbally and physically what you love most, because you talk about what you love. Furthermore, you love what you talk about. And we all talk about what most affects us—​​​what most powerfully works to create change in our lives.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“The work we are called to do is to rest from our own work to make ourselves right with God and believe in the work of Jesus on our behalf.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“Gospel Immersion I believe such fluency is what God wants his people to experience with the gospel. He wants them to be able to translate the world around them and the world inside of them through the lens of the gospel—​​​the truths of God revealed in the person and work of Jesus. Gospel-fluent people think, feel, and perceive everything in light of what has been accomplished in the person and work of Jesus Christ.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“Paul knows that if people are going to grow up into Christ in every way, they need to hear the truths of Jesus (the gospel) and learn to speak them into everything. As my friends Steve Timmis and Tim Chester like to say: “What’s the question? Jesus is the answer. What’s the problem? Jesus is the solution.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“you worship either a sovereign, powerful God or an ineffectual, weak God.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“We won't help people stop sinning by using the consequences of their sin to motivate them.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“Our behaviors are the tangible expression of our beliefs.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“If I don’t teach Caleb that he doesn’t need to hide, he will become a master deceiver to keep up the image that all is well with him. But if I teach him that the gospel frees him to confess his sin and experience times of healing and refreshing in his soul, he will grow in his faith in Jesus, which, in turn, will also train him to not need to earn his approval through his performance.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life

“And Sometimes they see themselves as the problem. this is close to the truth, but not close enough. The problem is in us, but it isn't in how we appear or even in how we behave. It's much deeper than that. The Gospel informs us that the real problem is sin, our unbelief in God.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Gospel Fluency: Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life