“The "covenant" language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language.” — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“what the Scriptures teach unsettled by their encounter with the book of Providence. This is often the case when it comes to… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I don't see a clerical class in the New Testament to which evangelism has been delegated. Preaching is not the only way… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
The more you come to know the Bible - both in reading it extensively and also meditating on it deeply - the… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“Given our disagreements over some points of the Bible, denominations are good, not bad, because they allow each church to follow Jesus… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“not the writings that come from prophets inspired by the one true God revealed in Jesus Christ, then why do we find those passages… — Mark Dever Copy Share
I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers. — Mark Dever Copy Share
People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense. — Mark Dever Copy Share
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share
I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be… — Mark Dever Copy Share
“The motive for discipling others begins in the love of God and nothing less. He has loved us in Christ, and so we love… — Mark Dever Copy Share
If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness… — Mark Dever Copy Share
“Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with… — Mark Dever Copy Share
We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us.… — Mark Dever Copy Share
Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches that confuse… — Mark Dever Copy Share
