Matt Chandler

Quotes

• “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 king...”
• “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...”
• “The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the...”
• “We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science...”
• “I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shep...”
• “Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas...”
• “The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying t...”
• “Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the ofte...”
• “The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders wh...”
• “To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around ...”
• “God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask ...”
• “It is an EVIL thing to be an expert in the weaknesses of our brothers and sisters. We need to be experts in the strength...”
• “It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the frui...”
• “Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences...”
• “Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can ...”
• “My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view tha...”
• “When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their great...”
• “Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the lif...”
• “If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a gr...”
• “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 pai...”
• “A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equall...”
• “Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to t...”
• “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 ...”
• “You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub...”
• “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 t...”
• “The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoic...”
• “Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a g...”
• “Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.”
• “Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.”
• “Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.”
• “Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?”
• “Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.”
• “Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.”
• “As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.”
• “Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado”
• “One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.”
• “Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.”
• “Human beings are not primarily thinking creatures. We are creatures driven by our loves.”
• “The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively”
• “The conviction that's underneath a lot of other statements is, "I don't trust Gjod.”
• “The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.”
• “The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.”
• “I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.”
• “When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.”
• “There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning.”
• “Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?”
• “We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.”
• “It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.”
• “What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.”
• “Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.”