Gary DeLashmutt > Quotes

“Sometimes I heed the Spirit’s desire, and sometimes I don’t. Spiritual maturity is not getting to the point where you no longer experience this tension. Rather, maturity is becoming more sensitive to it and choosing more consistently to trust the leadership and empowering of God’s Spirit—by stepping out in the midst of fear, aversion, and inadequacy to serve.”
― Gary DeLashmutt, Loving God’s Way: A Fresh Look at the One Another Passages

“(Hebrews 12:10). This is why it is important to understand God’s grace if we want to profit from admonition. God never rejects his children, and he always disciplines us in love. The better we understand this and the more we believe it, the easier it will be to interpret admonition as an act of love and profit from it instead of interpreting it as proof of rejection and reacting against it.”
― Gary DeLashmutt, Loving God’s Way: A Fresh Look at the One Another Passages

“The quality of Christian fellowship commends the message of Christianity in a unique way. Sharing the message of God’s love and grace is crucial. Intellectual persuasion and historical evidence can be effective in sharing Christianity. A well-reasoned individual presentation of how we came to Christ also has its place. Demonstrating personal integrity in your dealings with non-Christians is also important. But when non-Christians see Christians love each other in the distinctive ways that Jesus loved his disciples, they will be much more likely to personally come to Christ.”
― Gary DeLashmutt, Loving God’s Way: A Fresh Look at the One Another Passages