Matt Chandler Quotes

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation.
Matt Chandler
Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.
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Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
Matt Chandler
The Kingdom of God wasn't born on the Fourth of July.
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Human beings are not primarily thinking creatures. We are creatures driven by our loves.
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One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.
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The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine
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The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively
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It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.
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Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.
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I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
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I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12­–14 play out.
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My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
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The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.
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Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
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To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
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We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
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It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.
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Private worship excites us for public worship.
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Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
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Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.
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If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.
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Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
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The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
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The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon.
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God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.
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When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.
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Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
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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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A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
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The conviction that's underneath a lot of other statements is, "I don't trust Gjod.
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This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.
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Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
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We become what we behold.
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Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
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As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
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I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.
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Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular, she may miss the supernatural. If a person enters a gathering to be wowed with something impressive, with a style that fits him just right, with an order of service and song selection designed just the right way, that person may miss the supernatural presence of God. Worship is supernatural whenever people come hungry to respond, react, and receive from God for who He is and what He has done. 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.
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It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strengths of our brothers and sisters.
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The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
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Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
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What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.
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I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.
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God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.
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Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
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God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
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I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
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The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.
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Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.
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Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?
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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.
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Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.
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Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?
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Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
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Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.
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You are being discipled by something.
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The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.
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Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
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When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
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