Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World Quotes

“Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.”
― Rebecca Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker

“Our problem in evangelism is not that we don’t have enough information—it is that we don’t know how to be ourselves. We forget we are called to be witnesses to what we have seen and know, not to what we don’t know. The key on our part is authenticity and obedience, not a doctorate in theology. We haven’t grasped that it really is OK for us to be who we are when we are with seekers, even if we don’t have all the answers to their questions or if our knowledge of Scripture is limited.”
― Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life

“what do you do with a man who is supposed to be the holiest man who has ever lived and yet goes around talking with prostitutes and hugging lepers? What do you do with a man who not only mingles with the most unsavory people but actually seems to enjoy them? The religious accused him of being a drunkard, a glutton and having tacky taste in friends. It is a profound irony that the Son of God visited this planet and one of the chief complaints against him was that he was not religious enough.”
― Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life

“The problem stems from our great difficulty in believing that God is glorified in our utter humanity rather than in our spiritually programmed responses.”
― Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life

“The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life.”
― Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life