Behold Your God Student Workbo Quotes

“These Israelites had the right Bible and the right words, but they were living under the influence of a god they had invented. They had made a god that looked like them. Because of God's delayed wrath, the Jews assumed that He thought about sin the same way they did. Because their refashioned god was just fine with their choices, they could continue to attend religious services while living for themselves. It is a frightening reality--throughout the centuries, many people have held the right book in their hands and worshipped a man-made god in their hearts.”
― John Snyder, Behold Your God Student Workbo

“What is required to get a group of people to pray? They must see how big God is and how little they are. This will produce an awareness of their need. They will be deeply troubled. Yet they must also see that God is truly willing to hear the prayers of people like them. If either is missing, they will not approach the throne of grace. If both are believed, they will pray no matter how inconvenient the time. You will not be able to stop them.”
― John Snyder, Behold Your God Student Workbo

“Clever techniques borrowed from slick salesmen have no place in evangelism because they are not crafted with the character of God in mind.”
― John Snyder, Behold Your God Student Workbo

“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit. Quaint and antiquarian, the diligent examination of the Bible might seem better suited to an old seminary professor or a historian. We probably never actually talk this way, but we are all tempted to think like this when the busy cares of life press in on us. Reading the Bible gets placed on a mental shelf of good intentions, where it remains admired, not seriously examined and applied.”
― John Snyder, Behold Your God Student Workbo

“We may be tempted to think of Christianity primarily as 'I must...,' but that is not the starting place. You cannot make yourself a child of God by doing things a child of God does, any more than you could make yourself an heir to Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain by walking around in royal clothes and waving kindly at people. The duty of the Christian life--the 'I must...,'--is caused by something else. We may think of the Christian life as primarily about 'He has.' The work of God for our salvation is certainly a significant part of Christianity and is the reason that we are able to live a life of obedience. But even the 'He has...' is not the foundation of Christianity, for that itself is built upon a larger and deeper foundation. The greatest truth of Christianity is summed up in the words 'He is.' Who He is must be understood if we are going to grasp what He has done to save us.”
― John Snyder, Behold Your God Student Workbo

“This study is written with the conviction that our fundamental need in Western Christianity is to repent of our low and unworthy views of God, to return to the biblical descriptions of the true God, and to risk it all in order to live upon Who He is.”
― John Snyder, Behold Your God Student Workbo