Matt Chandler Quotes
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Find the things that stir your affections for Christ and saturate your life in them. Find the things that rob you of that affection and walk away from them. That's the Christian life as easy as I can explain it for you.
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Preach the Gospel with your life.
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There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.
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Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God. You can scare people into coming to your church, you can scare people into trying to be good, you can scare people into giving money, you can even scare them into walking down an aisle and praying a certain prayer, but you cannot scare people into loving God. You just can’t do it.
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Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.
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If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.
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Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.
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Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.
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The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.
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Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.
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Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
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No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
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When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.
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If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.
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Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.
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The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
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There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.
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More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.
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We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
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So what does it look like to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ? It looks like walking with, loving with, and doing life with those who are different from you. What binds you together is Christ. It looks like striving together to make Christ known. What motivates you is Christ. And it looks like standing with courage against all oppressors, natural or supernatural. What secures you is Christ.
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Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.
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If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.
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In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.
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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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I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.
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If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.
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If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.
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If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.
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The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
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Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.
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