Quotes by Pastors - Page 46

God’s plan is to get back the earth that has been given over to Satan by man
Sunday Adelaja
You do evil to the man and to God through your miracle prayers all the time.
Sunday Adelaja
For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
Sunday Adelaja
A fallen man is he who has lost the glory of God
Sunday Adelaja
It is virtues that make a man not prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings.
Sunday Adelaja
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.
Andy Stanley
Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.
Colin S. Smith
Controlled anger leads to positive action.
Todd Stocker
A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons.
Gary Rohrmayer
An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity
Sunday Adelaja
. . .most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised, They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected or demanded.
Paul David Tripp
When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!
Adam S. McHugh
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
Timothy J. Keller
What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour.
A.W. Tozer
I think the church has done a pretty good job at reaching the "down and outers" but not a good job at reaching the "up and outers." I feel like one of my mandates is to reach corporate America with a message that relates to them. As an avid reader, I realized that the church at large was not speaking the language of corporate America or strategically to the needs of a corporate man/woman.
Keith Craft
We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.
Randy Alcorn
From all accounts, it seems the faithful opposition is reduced to Gideon's 300. The day has arrived for Christians to engage the battle...From now on, true Christians will engage the battle of ideas in academy. The time for giving up ground is over. Now we must fight. We must engage the [B]iblical worldview vigorously in the world of great literature. The greatests wars ever fought in history are not those fought by sword or artillery. The greatest battles are engaged in the realm of ideas
Kevin Swanson
Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.
James MacDonald
Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That’s why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.
Harold L. Senkbeil
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
Matt Chandler
There are many themes found in the Book of Psalms that are generally not found in modern music. These include the fear of God, the righteousness and justice of God, the sovereignty of God, the judgement of God, the evil of sin, spiritual and physical warfare, the arch enemies of the Christian, the destruction of the wicked, the reality of hell, the blessedness of the church, the vicious attacks upon the church, the commandments of God, the dominion of David’s son, and so on. Without the backdrop of these truths, the themes of love, mercy, faith, and salvation become largely meaningless.
Kevin Swanson
The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.
James MacDonald
While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.
James MacDonald
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.
David Platt
We are molding Jesus into our image. He's beginning to look a lot like us because, after all, that is who we are most comfortable with. The danger now is when we gather in our church buildings to sing, and lift up our hands in worship, we may not actually be worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. Instead, we may be worshiping ourselves.
David Platt
All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.
C.J. Mahaney
Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.
Matt Chandler
Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.
Sunday Adelaja
Just like today, the Protestants and their teachings had to fight with the prevalent order of the day which taught that: Work is only for making profit. Make money with minimum effort. The culture of the day viewed work as a burden to be avoided. The secular world of the time taught that you should do no more than what was enough for good living.
Sunday Adelaja
Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.
Sunday Adelaja
In my opinion, one of the answers to the question of underdevelopment of nations, is in the CULTURE of DIGNITY OF LABOR.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour
Sunday Adelaja
What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don’t believe that hard work is worth it.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever.
Sunday Adelaja
You are being discipled by something.
Matt Chandler
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR.
Sunday Adelaja
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.
Matt Chandler
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
Mark Sayers
Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
Matt Chandler
When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
Matt Chandler
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
Matt Chandler
Many say that it is ethnocentric to claim that our religion is superior to others. Yet isn't that very statement ethnocentric? Most non-Western cultures have no problem saying that their culture and religion is best. The idea that it is wrong to do so is deeply rooted in Western traditions of self-criticism and individualism. To charge others with the "sin" of ethnocentrism is really a way of saying, "Our culture's approach to other cultures is superior to yours.
Timothy J. Keller
Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth
Sunday Adelaja
You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.
Rick Warren
Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.
Sunday Adelaja
A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness.
Sunday Adelaja
Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country.
Sunday Adelaja
The culture the leader creates impacts the feedback a leader receives.
Ron Edmondson
We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we have reduced the complexity and diversity of the Scriptures to systematic theologies that insist on ideological conformity, even when such conformity flattens the diversity of the Scriptural witness. We have reduced our conception of gospel to four simple steps that short-circuit biblical narratives and notions of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven in favor of a simplified means of entrance to heaven. Our preaching is often wed to our materialistic, consumerist cultural assumptions, and sermons are subsequently reduced to delivering messages that reinforce the worst of what American culture produces: self-centered end users who believe that God is a resource that helps an individual secure what amounts to an anemic and culturally bound understanding of the 'abundant life.
Tim Keel
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.
Erwin Raphael McManus