Matt Chandler Quotes

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• Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.

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  Christian, Affection, Easy

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• Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

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  Mean, Absence, Goodness

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• If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

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  Sound, Scripture, Slave

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• God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

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  Needs, Want, Need You

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• Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Ideas, Culture

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• My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Struggle, Past

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• When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when you fail. Do you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence? If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand the gospel.

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  Running, Son, Blow

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• If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

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  Jesus, Hurt, Heart

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• God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

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  Tears, Messages, Not Pretty

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• The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

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  World, Miserable, This World

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• Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is not lacking, that He is in need of no thing, that He is infinitely and gloriously wealthy, that He can give to, He can bless and He can answer without the need of help from anyone or anything else. And it also shows that we are in desperate need of that kind of sufficiency.

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  Prayer, Men, Two

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• God is not in love with some future version of you. It’s not you tomorrow that He loves and delights in. It’s not you when you get your act together....If you believe that Christ’s love for you is a future love for you, then you dismiss the cross of Christ.

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  Believe, Together, Delight

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• I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

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  Christian, Hurt, Lying

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• Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

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  God, Religious, Our Generation

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• It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there.

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• No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for the purpose of making Christ known and his name great. If you are a teacher, if you are a politician, if you are a businessman, if you are in agriculture, if you are in construction, if you are in technology, if you are in the arts, then you should not be saying, ‘I need to find my life’s purpose in this work,’ but rather, ‘I need to bring God’s purpose to this work.’

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  Teacher, Art, Jobs

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• Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

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  Church, Going To Church, Belonging

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• When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.

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  Permission

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• No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

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  Jobs, Home, Income

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• The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

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  Joy, Fullness, Given

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• God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

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  Regret, Doe, Saving

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• While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

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  News, May, Appeals

  Matt Chandler, Michael Snetzer (2014). “Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.

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  Ugly, Staying

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• The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to God and not from him, because they clearly understand that their acceptance before God is not predicated upon their behavior but on the righteous life of Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death.

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  Running, Jesus, Fall

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• Preach the Gospel with your life.

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  "The Little Mandate" by Matt Chandler, early 1930s.

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