“But I know, with all the certainty of my being, that Jesus has no interest in my doing this. To just say, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I m your biggest fan, causes him to stare at his watch, tap his feet, and order a double Glenlivet on the rocks with a twist. Fandom is of no interest to Jesus. What matters to him is the authentic following of a disciple. We all settle for saying, Jesus, but Jesus wants us to be in the world who he is.”
“The issue is not, What must I do in order to secure my salvation? but rather, What does God require of me in response to the needs of others? It is not, How can I be virtuous? but How can I participate in the struggle of the oppressed for a more just world? Otherwise our nonviolence is premised on self-justifying attempts to establish our own purity in the eyes of God, others, and ourselves, and that is nothing less than a satanic temptation to die with clean hands and a dirty heart.”
“Vision is not the ability to see. Rather, it is the willingness to see.”
“To be born again is to live through Jesus, to be mature is to let Jesus live through you!”
“Light is somewhere at the End, to guide you not to blind you!”
“Imagine being with the apostles and having the opportunity of seeing Jesus being taken up into heaven. Imagine if you had been there to witness to the ascension of Christ. For sure it must have been an awesome experience!”
“God s demand: be righteous ; God s diagnosis: no one is righteous ; God s deliverance: Jesus is our righteousness.”
“We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone. Really it is a question of which generation we are living for.”
“Its easy to wake up a person who is sleeping but its hard to wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.”
“Left to my own devices, it won’t take long before my conscience will be overrun by my greed. And if my devices are that faulty, I need to turn to a God who is not.”
“God s goal isn t just that we go to heaven when we die, it is that we live from heaven while we are alive!”
“The dilemma of Christianity is not only that, it lacks Sheep who know their Bibles well, but also that it has plenteous Shepherds who know the Bible Front and Back, but fail to live the life that they recite so easily to others.”
“When after celebrating the Glory of the Grace of God we find way too much self congratulatory glory taking by a person who seem to need More Acclaim than he actually deserve and if there is way too self referencing involved in one s Christian ministry, then that can be indisputable sign of one s failing to recognize his Bias and own Spiritual Blindness. Such a person can never be Right or Honest with God no matter what he claims. One will be tempted to be less than honest about what s really going on in his heart and ministry. In the light of above premise we have to understand that the underlying danger is if one is too caught up in searching his own will then he will never find the secret of discovering God s divine will.”
“Prophecy is not about declaring the words of blessing and sharing soothing words to please men. But instead prophecy is to see things in black and white through God s Holy Spirit and sharing boldly with others for their honest edification. The overall motive of any prophetical office is not to stop people from leaving the churches but to encourage them to genuinely repent of their personal Sins, assert spiritual discipline and avoid getting ultimately Driven Out from the Presence of God.”
“God is my Chaperone”
“Easter recognizes that I am living in a prison of my own making, and that God is in the demolition business.”
“If I’m only looking at an ending, I’ll assume that an ending is all that there is. And without a doubt, that kind of assumption is the beginning of the end.”