Doctrine Quotes

“Practically speaking, we were created to live all of life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, by the Word of God, to the glory of God. We were created to live all of life before the face of God, knowing that nothing in our life is secular or separated from the sight of God because all of life is sacred. To live otherwise is sacrilege”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“as John Calvin rightly said, the human heart is an idol factory.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Indeed, the world is our mission field, and Jesus is our model incarnational missionary who went before us and now goes with us as we continue in his work by his Spirit as his church for his glory to our joy.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Furthermore, if our views of justice and morality were nothing more than neurochemistry hardwired into us, then we would lose the right to be morally outraged at such things as genocide, rape, murder, and racism. When we deny the dignity of humanity as created in God’s image, we saw off the branch upon which we sit to defend it.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“What changes need to happen in your life to enjoy Jesus more thoroughly, worship him more passionately, follow him more closely, serve him more diligently, trust him more fully, and proclaim him more boldly?”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Until the end, God’s people are to wait patiently and serve diligently. In this life we are to suffer courageously and serve humbly like Jesus did during his incarnation, trusting that all will be made right in due time.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward’s mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner’s benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It’s his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Christians should desire to live their lives as good and godly stewards like Jesus, investing their time, talent, and treasure for God’s purposes.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Randy Alcorn reminds us of “the Jerusalem converts who eagerly sold their possessions to give to the needy (Acts 2:45; 4:32–35).”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace. 1 PETER 4:10”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Ed Welch says: Fear in the biblical sense . . . includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people. . . . The fear of man can be summarized this way: We replace God with people. Instead of a biblically guided fear of the Lord, we fear others. . . . When we are in our teens, it is called “peer pressure.” When we are older, it is called “people-pleasing.” Recently, it has been called “codependency.”76”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“anxiety and subsequent panic attacks were the result of being conflicted between the fear of the Lord and the fear of man. Proverbs 29:25 says, “The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“we worship our way into sin, ultimately we need to worship our way out.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“There are certain elements that Scripture prescribes for corporate worship services of the church. Many theologians refer to these as the elements of corporate worship, and they include the following: 1) Preaching34 2) Sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Table35 3) Prayer36 4) Reading Scripture37 5) Financial giving38 6) Singing and music”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Corporate worship is to be missional.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Corporate worship is to be orderly.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Corporate worship is to be unselfish.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Corporate worship is to be intelligible.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Corporate worship is to be God-centered.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“D. A. Carson has said, “We cannot imagine that the church gathers for worship on Sunday morning if by this we mean that we then engage in something that we have not been engaging in the rest of the week. New-covenant worship terminology prescribes constant ‘worship.’”26”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Regarding how God is to be worshiped, God must be worshiped as he wishes, not as we wish. The Bible is clear that God is to be worshiped in ways and forms that he deems acceptable. This explains why God judges those who seek to worship him with either sinful forms externally20 or sinful hearts internally.21 This is incredibly important. Some churches care more about what is in people’s hearts than about what they do in their lives, whereas others are more concerned about doing things the “right” way and care little about the motivations behind those actions.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“The mutual indwelling that God’s people enjoy in corporate worship is essential to our growth personally, joy collectively, and witness culturally. God’s people gather because, in the depths of their regenerated nature, the Holy Spirit gives them deep desires to worship God with his people. We want to see God’s people, we want to hear of God’s work in their lives, we want to know of ways we can lovingly serve them, and we want to be part of something bigger than ourselves that reaches beyond the mundane details of life and connects us all together despite our differences in age, race, gender, and income to seek and celebrate evidences of God’s grace.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Simply stated, everyone who idolizes also demonizes and in so doing is a hypocrite contributing to the tearing of a social fabric of love, peace, and kindness they purport to be serving.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“If we idolize our theological system, we must demonize other theological systems.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Keller says: Remember this—if you don’t live for Jesus you will live for something else. If you live for career and you don’t do well it may punish you all of your life, and you will feel like a failure. If you live for your children and they don’t turn out all right you could be absolutely in torment because you feel worthless as a person. If Jesus is your center and Lord and you fail him, he will forgive you. Your career can’t die for your sins. You might say, “If I were a Christian I’d be going around pursued by guilt all the time!” But we all are being pursued by guilt because we must have an identity and there must be some standard to live up to by which we get that identity. Whatever you base your life on—you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who died for you—one who breathed his last for you. Does that sound oppressive?15”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Avoid participating in any religious community where the clear truth-claims of Scripture are ignored while contemplative and mystical practices are favored simply for their spiritual experience. Be careful of any church or ministry wherein acts of mercy and environmental stewardship are devoid of a theology of the cross and wind up being little more than the worship of created people and things. And be careful not to worship a good thing as a god thing for that is a bad thing.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe

“Hebrews 13:15–17, which says: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.”
― Mark Driscoll, Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe