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Timothy Keller points out that sharing faith works best through friendship rather than pride. He describes the church as a hospital for broken people, not a museum of perfect saints. He also says the gospel is a full guide for life, not just basic teachings.

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The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

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We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

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It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

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Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said.

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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

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The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

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It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

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One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that…

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Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used…

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Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really…

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Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

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If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

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“The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim…

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One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

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It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all…

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“I would go even further and warn that failing to use both approaches invites danger. The STM, carried out in isolation from…

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“In our discussion of the need for balanced ministry fronts in chapter 23, we looked at the five models of church proposed…

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It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It…

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It is not accurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is trying hard to live…

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Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are…

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Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's…

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If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is…

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“The gospel is neither religion nor irreligion - it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience a means of…

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“When it comes to speaking about sin, Paul is clear in his message to the Jews that the law cannot justify them,…

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“Without an acceptance of multiple biblical church models, your own movement and network may plant cookie-cutter churches in neighborhoods where that model…

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“THE STANCE OF PIETISM How did most of the evangelical church in the United States relate to culture during the greater part…

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“to some parts of biblical teaching,” and “B” beliefs, which contradict Christian truth (“B” doctrines) and “lead listeners to find some Christian…

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“Let’s think back for a moment to the boring sermon. Sometimes the sermon we hear is boring because it went on for…

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“Third, do “apologetic sidebars.” Try to devote one of the three or four sermon points mainly to the doubts and concerns of…

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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show…

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“Fifth, consider demeanor. The young secularists of New York City are extremely sensitive to anything that smacks of artifice to them. Anything…

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“THE MEANS OF GOSPEL RENEWAL While the ultimate source of a revival is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit ordinarily uses several “instrumental,”…

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“the truths of the gospel, brought home by the Spirit, slowly but surely help us grasp in a new way how safe…

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“A new church in the community usually leads existing churches to face this issue of kingdom-mindedness. New churches typically draw most of…

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“ADDRESSING DIVERSITY The way to reach the sheer diversity of the city is through new churches. New churches are the single best…

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“a. Seek to worship and preach in the vernacular. It is impossible to overstate how insular and subcultural our preaching can become.…

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“Celebrate deeds of mercy and justice. We live in a time when public esteem of the church is plummeting. For many outsiders…

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“D. A. Carson makes this observation about this section of 1 Corinthians: When in the last century Hudson Taylor, the founder of…

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“We have seen, then, that it requires at least modest church planting in a city just to keep the body of Christ…

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The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

“Evangelism will come organically in friendship if we don’t let our pride, fears, and pessimism cause us to hide our faith and heart.”

“The coming of the messianic King occurs in two stages. At his first coming, he saved us from the penalty of sin and gave…

“24 A few pages later, Delbanco writes the following: [Alexis de] Tocqueville’s detection of a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance” has a…

“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't…

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then…

“of temple, presence, and sacrifice; of covenant and faithfulness; of kingdom and victory. When we seek to communicate the gospel to a particular culture,…

“Finally, you are ready to launch your church. Begin by developing action steps and goals that can be used as benchmarks to track your…

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free…

“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When…

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.