A Great Statement on Vision
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.” – T.E. Lawrence from his introduction to Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Steven J. Lawson on Man vs. God on the Subject of Sin
Man calls it an accident;
God calls it an abomination;
Man calls it a blunder;
God calls it a blasphemy;
Man calls it a chance;
God calls it a choice;
Man calls it an error;
God calls it an enmity;
Man calls it a fascination;
God calls it a fatality;
Man calls it an infirmity;
God calls it an iniquity;
Man calls it a luxury;
God calls it leprosy;
Man calls it a liberty;
God calls it lawlessness;
Man calls it a trifle;
God calls it tragedy;
Man calls it a mistake;
God calls it madness;
Man calls it weakness;
God calls it willfulness.
(Steven J. Lawson, Psalms 1-75, Holman OT Commentary, p. 175)
“When humility delivers a man from attachment to his own words and his own reputation, he discovers that true joy is only possible when we have completely forgotten ourselves, and it is only when we pay no more attention to our life and our own reputation and our own excellence that we are at last completely free to serve God for His sake alone.” Thomas Merton
“One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect.”
– F.F. Bruce (The New Testament Documents, p. 22)
Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you: Jesus Christ & The American G. I. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom Freedom is not free-Somebody paid!
“God’s Word is a light to guide us, and we must follow. It is water to wash us, and we must bathe. It is a mirror to show us our blemishes, and we must be honest. It is medicine to heal our hurts, and we must apply it. We don’t just look at the Word to learn the Word; we must live by the Word.” – Warren W. Wiersbe (God Isn’t In a Hurry, p. 96)
“It is infinitely better to have the whole world for our enemies and God for our friend, than to have the whole world for our friends and God for our enemy.” – John Brown
The Power of Multiplication
(adapted from Keith Philips, The Making of a Disciple, p. 23)
Year Evangelist Discipler
1 365 2
2 730 4
3 1095 8
4 1460 16
5 1825 32
6 2190 64
7 2555 128
8 2920 256
9 3285 512
10 3650 1,024
11 4015 2,048
12 4380 4,096
13 4745 8,192
14 5110 16,384
15 5475 32,768
16 5840 65,536
*Keith’s chart compares the numeric difference between one person coming to Christ a day and one person a year being discipled to maturity. Catch the vision and start making disciples now!
“Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.”
– F.F. Bruce (The New Testament Documents
“Walk with God and you cannot mistake the road; you have infallible wisdom to direct you, permanent love to comfort you, and eternal power to defend you.” – Charles Spurgeon
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