Top 51 Kyle Idleman Quotes
#1. Many have made a decision to believe in Jesus without making a commitment to follow Jesus.
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#2. Here's the point: idolatry is the tree from which our sins and struggles grow.
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#3. Fans will try and make Jesus one of many. Some fans may even make Jesus the first of many. But when Jesus defines the relationship he makes it clear; he wants to be your one and only.
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#4. When Jesus invites you to follow Him, his invitation comes to you right where you are. He doesn't want you to wait until tomorrow in hopes that you will finally be heading down the right path; He wants you to say yes today and he will lead you out of where you are now.
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#5. It may sound harsh to say, but the number-one contributor to spiritual growth is not sermons, books, or small groups; the number-one contributor to spiritual growth is difficult circumstances.
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#6. The grace of God doesn't simply invite us to follow ... it teaches us to follow.
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#8. We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it.
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#9. It's much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.
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#10. So in case someone left it out or forgot to mention it when they explained what it meant to be a Christian, let me be clear: There is no forgiveness without repentance. There is no salvation without surrender. There is no life without death. There is no believing without committing.
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#11. Worship is powerful. It has huge consequences, whether you praise the God of heaven or the god of appetite.
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#12. In Proverbs 20:30, the Bible basically says it sometimes takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. And sometimes it does.
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#13. The most natural path in the world is to adopt the gods of our parents.
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#14. If you're most interested in what other people think, then their applause or attention is your reward.
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#15. When we learn to truly follow Jesus, we find that obedience to God comes from the inside out. Submission to what God wants for our lives flows naturally out of that relationship.
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#18. The opposite of theism is not atheism, it's idolatry.
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#19. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".
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#20. God often uses desperate moments to wake us up. Only when things start to fall apart do we finally open our eyes.
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#21. A belief, no matter how sincere, if not reflected in reality isn't a belief; it's a delusion.
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#22. Trying to follow Jesus part-time or halfhearted is impossible. The relationship he wants with you requires your whole heart. And fans should know that his terms are not negotiable. So before you say, "I want to be a follower," be sure you understand what it's going to cost you.
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#24. Following Jesus isn't something you can do at night where no one notices. It's a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That's not the small print - that's a guarantee.
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#25. The problem isn't money. Money isn't the root of all kinds of evil, but the love of money is.
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#26. When Jesus defines the relationship he wants with us he makes it clear that being a fan who believes without making any real commitment to follow isn't an option.
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#27. Jesus doesn't expect followers to be perfect, but he does call them to be authentic.
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#28. Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.
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#29. The church must constantly fight the tendency to make rules and policies more important than people, because when that happens we are no longer following Jesus.
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#31. Old gods die hard. They hold on, they creep in, they quietly clutch at us.
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#32. What you win them with is what you win them to.
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#33. We were made for God, and until he is our greatest pleasure, all the other pleasures of this life will lead to emptiness.
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#34. We love others best when we love God most.
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#35. He begins to introduce us to the great kingdom paradox: at the end of me, I find real life in him.
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#36. There's nothing life can throw at us that God can't use to draw us nearer to him.
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#37. The god of sex specializes in taking you further than you ever intended to go.
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#38. If you worship false gods, the ripples bring a little of hell to earth.
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#39. Following Jesus will cost you something. Following Jesus always costs something.
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#40. The battlefield of the gods is your heart. Your heart is shaped by your thoughts.
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#41. The truth is that most of us go to great lengths to disguise our weaknesses.
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#42. The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren't actually interested in following Christ. They want to be close enough to Jesus to get all the benefits, but not so close that it requires anything from them.
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#43. Fans mistake knowledge OF Jesus for intimacy WITH Jesus.
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#44. As I sat in the sanctuary surrounded by thousands of empty seats, here's what became clear to me: it wasn't the size of the crowd Jesus cared about; it was their level of commitment.
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#45. I've come to realize that if me gets his way, I'll miss out on the real life I'm meant to live. The life in which I love others and make a difference in the world.
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#46. Sometimes it takes a broken heart for us to finally let Jesus in. Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. - Proverbs 20:30 GNT
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#47. Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it ...
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#48. Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and hear Him ...
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#49. God is jealous for your heart, not because he is petty or insecure, but because he loves you. The reason why God has such a huge problem with idolatry is that his love for you is all-consuming. He loves you too much to share you.
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#50. In Luke 15, the Prodigal Son headed to what Jesus called a distant country. The Distant Country is any area of our lives where we are trying to live independently of the Father.
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#51. Faithful followers of Christ aren't on earth to assign blame; we're here to free the trapped, bandage the wounded, help the hurting, and celebrate homecomings.
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