Matt Chandler Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

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

  Matt Chandler

  Regret, Doe, Saving

• The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, News, Christ

• Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, Eric Geiger (2012). “Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church”, p.28, B&H Publishing Group

• Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

  Matt Chandler

  Heart, Grace, Darkness

• The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

  Matt Chandler

  Betrayed, Stuff, Christ

• 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.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Affection, Easy

• 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.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Struggle, Past

• Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

  Matt Chandler

  Motivation, Suffering, Errands

• We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Trying, Enough Time

• 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.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Jesus, Fall

• Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Men, Differences

• 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.

  Matt Chandler

  Believe, Together, Delight

• If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

  Matt Chandler

  Past, Sin, Christ

• All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Roots, Faithful

• A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from The Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise- the only proper response to the God who saves us.

  Matt Chandler

  Grace, Church, Body Of Christ

  Matt Chandler, Eric Geiger, Josh Patterson (2012). “Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

• The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Benefits, Messages, Christ

• 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.’

  Matt Chandler

  Teacher, Art, Jobs

• If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

  Matt Chandler

  Religious, Prayer, Practice

• God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Names

• No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Sin, Christ, Crosses

• The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Depth, Christ

• There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Errors, Addiction, Christ

• When I think about sanctification, a couple things immediately pop into my head. One is how slow it actually is. I think everybody wants the silver-bullet, the thing that makes sanctification move like a superhighway rather than the dirt path that it is. The other is that, by in large, the greatest single asset in ongoing sanctification is a serious pursuit of joy in the face of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Couple, Moving

• The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.

  Matt Chandler

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

• If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Mistake, Would Be

  Matt Chandler (2015). “The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption”, p.99, David C Cook

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