Derwin L. Gray Quotes

#1. Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

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#2. Substance and content over style and hype any day.

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#3. Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

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#4. We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

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#5. You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.

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#6. When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

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#7. I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

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#8. 1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

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#9. Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

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#10. God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

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#11. It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

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#12. People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.

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#13. Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

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#14. Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

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#15. You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

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