Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
Repentance is belief in action.
Don’t feel your way into your beliefs; believe your way into your feelings.
A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to heaven because of it even though there is no detectable difference in their lifestyles from those outside of the church. On this issue- the most important issue on earth- we have to be absolutely clear. We need to preach salvation by repentance before God and faith in the finished work of Christ.
Getting doctrine right is a matter of life and death, but holding that doctrine in the right spirit is essential too. A great deal of damage is done by those who hold the truth of Christ with the spirit of Satan.
We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
God calls us first... not to a platform, but to an altar!
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".
True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
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Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.
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