J. D. Greear Quotes
- In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me…
- A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it…
- Repentance is belief in action.
- What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
- Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
- Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that…
- In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
- Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
- True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
- When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
- My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a…
- Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain…
- Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
- Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
- It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us…
- Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.
- The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when seeing His kingdom…
- We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for…
- True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something…
- The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.