Eric Mason > Quotes

“Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“The fatherless man can find strength in the fatherhood of God. Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father. He is proud of His children because He is pleased with His Son who lives in them. In Jesus, God was and is calling those who are His children as they hear His voice and respond by the power of the Holy Spirit ( John 8:39–47; 10:22–30).”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“But in the gospel, man is not just reconciled to God by faith. Man is also reconciled to man by faith. (See 2 Cor. 5:18). God has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. He doesn’t give us the luxury of refusing to be reconciled.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“One of the most difficult things for me to deal with is the refusal for many evangelicals to acknowledge the truths about what has happened in our country. Our history has been hard for people of color, and the church must be willing to acknowledge those hard truths if we are to move toward healing. Much of our history is shrouded in darkness because it is hard to talk about and even harder to understand from our vantage point today.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“Cornel West says: “If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don’t want successful leaders.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“Being healthy in steadfastness is power need in our day of entitlement. Entitlement thinks it deserves what it receives, but steadfastness is instead thankful for what it receives because it teaches appreciation through challenge.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“hard for me to hear the constant refrain of “just preach the gospel.” When the topic is abortion, nobody says, “just preach the gospel.” We preach against abortion as if it’s a gospel issue. When the topic is sex trafficking, no one says “just preach the gospel.” We develop a battalion to go and get people out of sex trafficking. And we should because these are crucial issues. But so is racial justice!”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“There is a growing body of evidence that “race affects how teachers see and treat their students. Black students taught by white teachers are less likely to be identified for gifted programs than black students taught by black teachers, for example. Other research has shown biases in teachers’ grading of work by students of different genders, races and ethnicities.”5”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“Colorblind theology denies Christ’s power to heal racial divisions, disparities, and injustices by ignoring their ongoing impact. Colorblind theology undermines unity in the church by refusing to acknowledge significant ethnic differences or address significant problems.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“To be a Christian means that God has become our point of reference and framework. “In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). As Christians we need to become more and more self-consciously aware of this truth. One way to do this is to follow the apostle Paul’s instruction (2 Cor. 10:5) to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ or to “think God’s thoughts after him.” To be a Christian, not in name only, but as one who practices his or her beliefs (which is the essence of a disciple), is to think from a Christian perspective about life and reality. In becoming Christian our life becomes oriented to God who tells us to “be transformed by the renewal of your mind.” (Rom. 12:2)6”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“Without the Gospel, I am only projecting behavioral modification. Changes of the heart must trump mere change of behavior. Therefore, the goodness of God through the gospel must trump all other philosophies in the home.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“You have to be intrinsically changed by God in order for justice to be done. In other words, justice doesn’t come by legislation, because you can legislate things and nothing changes. We can go to the executive branch. We can go to the legislative branch. We can go to the judicial branch. We can put whatever kind of Supreme Court justices we want to put in place. But at the end of the day legislation doesn’t change hearts … only the gospel does.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“The gospel is supposed to bring people together who wouldn’t naturally be together.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“We are called to advocate for the poor as an outworking of being a wise covenant community. This is the legacy of the church. Defending the cause of the needy and oppressed is a huge role that we are to be known for as the people of God.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“It is incumbent on leadership to reevaluate areas where women have been relegated to serve that are not based on biblical prohibitions but rather on cultural practices that may be extensions of sexism and misogyny.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“Western definition of adolescence, as we’ll soon see, does align remarkably well with the biblical definition of childhood.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“The Woke Church is one that is aware of the urgent needs in its community and does more than just talk about those needs”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“What Paul is saying is that the gospel strengthens us through the Spirit to see things in our society that others do not. We are called, as the people of God, to wake up. To see what others don’t and call it out. The church in America is not awake to the reality of what is happening in communities across this nation, and we are missing out on our calling to shine the light into these places of darkness for Christ’s glory.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“There’s a tendency to want to gloss over injustices for the sake of unity. However, any authentic attempt to pursue unity and reconciliation must start with truth. The journey toward healing begins with an awakening.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“We are called to follow His example of caring for the physical needs of others in order that the gospel witness of the kingdom might saturate the earth.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“We desperately need the gospel. I need the gospel. Every day I need Jesus’ gospel to shepherd my heart and mind. When I see all the bad news on my newsfeed on Facebook, if I’m not in my Bible, preaching the gospel to myself, looking at the eschatological hope, I will lose my mind. And so I’m glad that when we see the injustices and the brokenness of our society we have the tool of God’s Word to help us become change agents—to make a difference in our spheres of influence. The gospel is the truth that unites us. It is the common ground that knits our souls together as one.”
― Eric Mason, Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice

“We need the gospel. We need it more than books. More than studies. More than groups. We need the life-giving, identity-establishing, purpose-defining gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“It takes God to desire God.”
― Eric Mason, Unleashed: Being Conformed to the Image of Christ

“Leading a family starts with being in a vital and flourishing relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Jesus’ own leadership flowed from His intimacy with the Father.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“Jesus was not short of drive and purpose. Men, who REALLY follow Jesus, might not have all the details of life, but they will possess in increasing measure this kind of redemptive drive that gives life a dramatic sense of purpose.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“In transforming the soul of sinful man, Jesus will set in motion an eternal chain reaction that will change all things forever (1 Cor. 15).”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“As men, we must not become lethargic in our vigilance against things that would attempt to destroy manhood.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole

“We have the tendency to trace the good in our lives back to ourselves. But in the end, we find that it is all a work of God.”
― Eric Mason, Unleashed: Being Conformed to the Image of Christ

“Therefore, both have an equal relationship with God, but each is distinct in how he or she represents Him and lives out their responsibility toward Him.”
― Eric Mason, Manhood Restored: How the Gospel Makes Men Whole