Mark Dever Quotes

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• If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply…
• Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.
• Today is what the Lord has prepared you for.
• Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
• A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives…
• The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what…
• Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
• For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.
• If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the…
• When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins…
• Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the…
• Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the…
• The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul
• As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring…
• By the grace of God I am what I am
• A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.
• Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.
• Do you want to know that your new life is real? Commit yourself to a local group of saved sinners. Try to love them. Don’t…
• The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.
• God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

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