Kevin DeYoung Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply

  Kevin DeYoung

  Goal, Church, Building

• The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Children, Heart, Men

• My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, "How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?" I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Responsibility, Opportunity

• Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Ignorance, Thinking, Fog

• If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Long, Church, Revival

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2015

• Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Church, Trying, Hips

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2014

• Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Mean, Law

• The next time someone tells you, "The Church is full of a bunch of hypocrites." You can respond, "You don't even know the half of it."

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hypocrite, Church, Half

  Twitter post from Jan 22, 2015

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