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“Love is the most attractive quality in the world. And it lies at the heart of Christianity.”
― Michael Green

“grace (free forgiveness when you don’t deserve it a bit).”
― Michael Green, But Don't All Religions Lead to God?

“now the Spirit had come, and Mark's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant, equipped for his stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time. The last days are no longer entirely in the future; in the person of Jesus the end has dawned.”
― Michael Green, I Believe In The Holy Spirit

“I think it is significant that it is the younger churches with no pretensions to western `sophistication' who look at the Acts, learn from it, and go out in the power of the same Lord expecting him to do equally mighty things through them. That is happening in Latin America, much of Asia, and a great deal of Africa. The Christians in these regions seem to have a facility we have lost for reading the story, learning from it, and applying it.”
― Michael Green, Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book Acts for Today

“The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and ministerial pedigree, our syncretism and pluralism, our lack of expectancy and vibrant faith. As such it is a book supremely relevant for our time.”
― Michael Green, Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book Acts for Today

“Christianity is not a religion at all, but a revelation and a rescue and an ensuing relationship with God through Jesus Christ.”
― Michael Green, But Don't All Religions Lead to God?: Navigating the Multi-Faith Maze

“God expects his leaders, whom he trusts, and whom he equips so richly, to be utterly loyal to him. They must not make their position an excuse to ‘keep the fruit’ and feather their nest. They must not fail to listen to God’s prophetic messengers in their congregations (albeit unordained), and they must above all else beware of ‘crucifying the Son of God all over again’.13 If God had been compelled to change tenants once, he could, if provoked, do it again.”
― Michael Green, The Message of Matthew: The Kingdom of Heaven

“I am very grateful for churches I know in many
parts of the world, mainly the Two Thirds World, which are seeking to live like the first disciples and, like them, are discovering the power of the Holy Spirit who seems only to be available to us when we make ourselves totally available to God”
― Michael Green, Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book Acts for Today

“The apostolic Church were quite clear that God’s gift of his Spirit was intended not to make them comfortable but to make them witnesses.”
― Michael Green, Evangelism in the Early Church: Lessons from the First Christians for the Church Today (The Eerdmans Michael Green Collection

“It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came.”
― Michael Green, Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book Acts for Today

“in this book I want to address a question that I think is commonly in the minds of Christian people when they read the Acts of the Apostles: what can we learn from these people who turned the world upside down in so short a space of time?”
― Michael Green, Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book Acts for Today

“For of all the methods of approach of the Christians to the Jews, that of synagogue preaching was most important.”
― Michael Green, Evangelism in the Early Church: Lessons from the First Christians for the Church Today (The Eerdmans Michael Green Collection