Top 33 Jared Wilson Quotes
#1. Kids have faith. Adults have the facts that make faith seem like kid's stuff.
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#2. Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.
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#3. The remedy for our deadness to God's grace is more grace.5
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#4. Or as my friend Ray Ortlund has been known to say, "In Acts, they preached and awe came down. You can't put that in your worship order. 10 a.m.: awe comes down.
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#5. Leaders must lead, not push. Leaders must serve, not domineer.
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#7. We forget that the kingdom does not come through political plotting but through the proclamation of the gospel. We stretch our branches to the wrong king.
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#8. But really, my ability to exercise oversight willingly flows from my vision. No, not a vision for an "awesomely bold" church - at least, not at first - but of my God and for the flock of God that is among me.
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#9. The beauty of Christ and his gospel continues to captivate millions of believers all over the world and drive them to passionate worship while it simultaneously disgusts, angers, or bores millions of others.
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#10. Some days taking up your cross feels like putting up with an annoying coworker or a flat tire. And some days taking up your cross feels like what it is - death.
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#11. The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the way some discern clue after perplexing clue in their Beatle albums as evidence for a cover-up of Paul's having died in a car accident.
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#12. Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.
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#14. We are no more secure in Christ with a strong faith than with a small faith, so long as that small faith is true faith.
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#15. He is no fool who believes the man who knows everything.
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#16. The well-known evangelist D. L. Moody is reported to have said that he had more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other person he met!
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#17. I had been feeling that it was more important for me to understand how much Jesus loved me than it was for me to figure out how to love Him.
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#18. The Devil is like a rat in a jar that is filling with ether. We should expect that as his death gets ever-nearer, he will beat his claws more furiously against the glass.
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#20. Christ's sacrifice on the cross and resurrection out of the grave are big enough, grand enough, effective enough, and eternal enough to cover your shoddy Christian life,
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#21. Let's stop trying to conjure up God (by which, let's be honest, we're often just trying to conjure up our emotions), and let us marvel and enjoy that he cannot be conjured.
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#22. I've concluded that God is as much, if not more, interested in doing a great work in us as he is in doing a great work through us.
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#23. His job ruled his day. Cable television infomercials and YouTube searches ruled his nights.
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#24. There are no coach seats on the journey to Christ when he calls his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to another.
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#25. Only God can write a story that resonates not just in the power of the imagination or the heart or the mind, but in the very soul; only God can write a story that brings dead things to life.
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#26. Gospel wakefulness means treasuring Christ more greatly and savoring his power more sweetly.
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#27. That was a time of innocence, a time when life was on hold. When life was carefree. The only expectation was to be a good boy. No grand ambitions. No long-range goals to mold your existence around. Not then.
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#28. People who know the gospel's power will share it powerfully.
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#29. The way the church wins its people shapes its people. So the most effective way to turn your church into a collection of consumers and customers is to treat them like that's what they are.
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#31. The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.
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#32. It's possible to do "Jesusy" stuff without knowing Jesus. It's possible to do good as part of some religious self-salvation project and not out of the joy of being saved.
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