My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus’ words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.
I can almost picture the disciples faces. “No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We’ll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!
We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
The purpose of God’s Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.
What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.
The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.
We’ve taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7
God’s revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen
God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.
The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as “a paperwork pregnancy”.