Top 100 Matt Chandler Quotes
#1. We don't come to Jesus because He makes life better. We come to Jesus because He's better than life. - Matt Chandler
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#2. A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?
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#3. It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.
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#4. God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.
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#5. A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
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#6. Children are perceptive, and if they see leaders and parents talk with boredom and apathy about faith yet become overtly passionate about sports teams or shopping malls, they will think the sport or the mall is more attractive than Jesus.
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#7. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
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#8. The power to walk by faith in obedience is sourced in the grace of the gospel.
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#9. He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't ... that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.
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#10. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. (1 Cor. 14:20)
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#11. When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
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#12. There is no error, no addiction with more power than the Cross of Christ.
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#13. Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.
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#15. Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
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#16. Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
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#17. God loves us and has adopted us exactly as we are, knowing every single thing about us. And if He's not ashamed of us, then why should we be?
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#18. The gospel creates a new reality that deepens our understanding of the world and our place in it.
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#19. All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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#20. I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.
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#21. The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.
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#22. So quit looking for 'the one'. You have a better chance of finding an Oompa Loompa riding a unicorn, fighting Bigfoot.
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#24. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
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#25. There isn't a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.
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#26. We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally.
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#27. The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.
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#28. Jeremiah acknowledges that there is nothing anywhere in the universe that God doesn't rightly stand over, reign over, and rightly proclaim as "Mine." Everything's His.
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#29. As we continue to look for "developmental deficiencies" in our maturation in Christ, how are you doing in the area of contentment? How quick is your impulse to find satisfaction in Christ, to go to the joy of the gospel in times of stress, frustration, disappointment, and trouble?
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#30. Faith doesn't mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God's goodness is greater.
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#31. When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions only stoke the fires of conflict; responses, particularly godly ones, help us snuff out the conflict.
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#32. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
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#33. It is so easy for the proud to get lost in the imagination of their hearts.
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#34. Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
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#35. The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.
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#36. Rather than respond to his incalculable God-ness with our slide rules and flowcharts, we would do better to worship him with reverence and awe.
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#37. As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up.
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#38. Lazy people are some of the most exhausted, dissatisfied, and ill-tempered folks around because the joy-backed promises of laziness our lies.
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#39. We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity.
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#40. The worst thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them. Because He's in charge anyway. And in Him, you're in His peace.
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#42. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant.
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#43. The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine
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#44. The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
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#45. If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.
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#46. If you struggle with being able to run hard after the Lord because you feel so unworthy, so unclean, so unsteady, listen up: "While [you] were still weak, at the right time," God came to your rescue. And still does. And still is.
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#47. From what we know of Paul, he's a pretty tough guy. A man's man, perhaps. But he is moved
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#48. Because marriage is meant to reflect the great sacrificial and sanctifying love Christ has for his church, it makes sense to connect your married life to a local Christian congregation.
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#49. My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
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#50. For instance, if He wants your life, what are you going to do, eat spinach and go to pilates?
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#51. We're using the gifts of God as if they themselves are gods.
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#52. Author points out how easily non-agricultural people miss the picture of God as all-providing in Psalm 50:10, Word to a people for whom cattle meant plowing and fertilizer as well as meat.
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#53. The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.
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#54. The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God. This story of the good news is personal, but it is also cosmic.
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#55. Living a life worthy of the gospel does not mean pretending to be perfect. Instead, it means having the humility to think of others as better than ourselves (Phil. 2:3).
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#56. If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.
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#57. In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.
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#58. I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.
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#59. The God of the Bible is not an ambulance driver who shows up after the wreck and hops out and thinks, Okay, let's do some triage here. The God of the Bible does not show up after the accident and try to fix it. That's not what He does.
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#60. Yesterday's grace is inadequate in the face of today's struggle.
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#61. As men and women get older, they get crustier and not more fun.
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#62. Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying.
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#63. The longing in a single person's heart for a wife or a husband finds its root in God's glory.
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#64. The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.
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#65. We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
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#66. The great preacher Dwight Moody once quipped, "Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now."1
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#67. If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing
a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.
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#68. The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.
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#69. Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.
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#70. When all of us, different kinds of people, walk together in unity for the glory of Christ, the gospel looks really big.
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#71. Fearless faith results from holding on to Christ as our treasure. Gospel courage comes from gospel preciousness. If we truly believed that our reward in heaven far surpasses all the comfort and convenience and collections of the world, we, too, would be willing to consider them all as loss.
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#72. We can all look at life and agree that there are some parts that have no purpose - like neckties or cats.
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#73. In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.
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#74. Dating becomes a lot about hiding who you really are, hiding you imperfections and in many cases, unfortunately, displaying and making primary what ought to be reserved only for marriage
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#75. Therefore, any attempt to build community on something more than the grace of Christ becomes a subtle move away from grace, a move toward pseudo-community that only puffs up and fails to transform.
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#76. Community is only as strong as what it's built upon.
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#77. himself calls such thinking stupid. "Are you so foolish?" he asks in Galatians 3:3. "Having begun by the Spirit,
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#78. If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.
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#79. I think "HALLELUJAH" translates into "HALLELUJAH" in every language out there.
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#80. God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
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#81. He later came to love. Then God hijacked his life. The zealous Pharisee became the apostle with the gospeled heart. So of course he would say, "To live is Christ." In the logic of the gospel, there are no alternatives to Christ. Every other
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#82. I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
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#83. The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.
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#84. The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
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#85. Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.
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#86. Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool's errand.
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#87. But let's be honest. Real good can come from never missing Sunday-morning worship. Real good comes from guarding what you watch. Good can come from guarding your life in these ways. But as a means to or measure of our righteousness? These things will always fall short.
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#88. There is a greater day coming, a greater reward coming, a greater life coming, and the purpose of life while we are alive is to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel, which holds the promise of life everlasting.
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#89. Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people's experiences as an interpretive lens.
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#90. If the doctrine of a church is that people outside of Christ will face an eternity in hell, yet the culture is one that does not celebrate conversions or evangelistic witness, the culture of the church will contradict its doctrinal stance by continually focusing inward instead of outward.
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#91. Guilt is more about what you do. Shame is more about who you are.
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#92. Megan, I love you,. I will always love you."
I swallowed hard.
"Scared?" He asked.
"Yeah. How about you?"
"Even more than the first time," He said. "I know what it feels like to lose you."
Then he bent his head and kissed me.
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#93. The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.
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#94. God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.
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#95. On the transformation of His brother James after Christ's Resurrection: What would it take to convince your family that you are God?
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#96. This wasn't a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God.
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#97. In Christ's grace, there is freedom to be honest and transparent. When we embrace that security and freedom, then we end up pointing others to the only Source of healing and forgiveness.
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#98. The reason Christians get married "before the church" is not to give a religious appearance to the ceremony but because Christians hold the marriage covenant in the context of the community of the body of Christ. Seeking the support and counsel of family is an extension of this.
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#99. If the gospel is true, your life should look like it's true.
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#100. Grace-driven effort wants to get to the bottom of behavior, not just manage behavior. If you're simply managing behavior but not removing the roots of that behavior, then the weeds simply sprout up in another place. You may mow it down for a season of time only to see it sprout up again.
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