Gospel Who Was Mark Quotes

#1. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Mark Twain

#2. The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

Karl Barth

#3. A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

Mark Dever

#4. Jesus is not asking you to sell the gospel; Jesus is asking you to preach the gospel. Mark 16:15

Felix Wantang

#5. The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.

Mark Batterson

#6. Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.

Elaine Pagels

#8. Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.

Mark Hart

#9. I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

Aasif Mandvi

#10. In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side.

John Shelby Spong

#11. We receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.

Mark Driscoll

#12. What about for your church? What boundaries has the gospel overrun that society fiercely respects?

Mark Dever

#13. Let us remain with Christ - abiding in Christ - and let us always try to be one with him. Let us follow him; let us imitate him in his movement of love, in his going forth to meet humanity. Let us go forth and open doors. Let us have the audacity to mark out new paths for proclaiming the Gospel.

Pope Francis

#14. We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Mark Dever

#15. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul? -Mark 8:36

Gospel Of Mark

#16. It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

Mark Driscoll

#17. The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

Mark Dever

#18. The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Mark Twain

#19. The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

Mark Galli

#20. 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 gospel made visible.

Mark Dever

#21. When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.

Mark Driscoll

#22. The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.

Jay Parini

#23. The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

Mark Hatfield

#24. Shame exists where there is sin, and so feeling ashamed, particularly when we sin, is natural and healthy. Therefore, shame is not bad, but unless the underlying sin that causes the shame is properly dealt with through the gospel, then the shame will remain, with devastating implications.

Mark Driscoll

#25. ? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus as no more than a winning lottery ticket to solve your immediate problems. Once the ticket is cashed, you take the money and go your own way.

Jonah Books

#26. The gospel gives us the freedom to fail. Because we are loved. No matter what happens.

John Mark Comer

#27. Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.

John Shelby Spong

#28. In Matthew, Jesus declares, "Whoever is not with me is against me." In Mark, he says,"Whoever is not against us is for us." Did he say both things? Could he
mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that
one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?

Bart D. Ehrman

#29. 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 body of Christ at all!

Mark Dever

#30. It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

Jorge Luis Borges

#31. The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Mark Dever

#32. I am not ashamed of the Gospel.

Mark Driscoll