We are called to love others. We share the gospel because we love people. And we don't share the gospel because we don't love people. Instead, we wrongly fear them. We don't want to cause awkwardness. We want their respect, and after all, we figure, if we try to share the gospel with them, we'll look foolish! And so we are quiet. We protect our pride at the cost of their souls. In the name of not wanting to look weird, we are content to be complicit in their being lost.
When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local … - Mark Dever
When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local …
- Mark Dever
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. - Mark Dever
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them. - Mark Dever
Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.
Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth. - Mark Dever
Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin. - Mark Dever
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.
Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether. - Mark Dever
Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. - Mark Dever
Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul - Mark Dever
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul
A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood. - Mark Dever
A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.
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