John Burton > Quotes

“God is raising up a people who have the boldness of the Holy Spirit, and who will, in humility, stare the enemy in the face and renounce him and his strategies! It’s time to tear down our father’s altars! The coming Church will be an altar-destroying Church!”
― John Burton, The Coming Church

“It’s time we stop using Facebook to post pictures of kittens and start using it as a platform to expose darkness and to declare the word of the Lord! End-time warriors awakened in the fire of the coming Church will use every vehicle they can to awaken others!”
― John Burton, The Coming Church

“Man’s attempt to use God to get what he wants. Today’s Church is designed, first and foremost, to be appealing to people. It’s people-centric. The presumption is that God is always there, and now we have to get the people there. This couldn’t be more incorrect. The simple truth is that people want certain things in life, and by extension, in the Church. Instead of being fully surrendered to Jesus, to the cross of Christ, they place demands and expectations on God and his Church. A religious spirit will accept God as long as God performs according to expectations. The moment God fails to meet their spoken, or usually unspoken demands, the religious spirit will embrace a demonic spirit of accusation against God and will look for other means to get what they want. The coming Church will threaten almost everything we have come to value in the Church of today, because today’s Church is largely fashioned by the will of man.”
― John Burton, The Coming Church

“Any place in our lives and heart where we are exerting our will and ways over God’s will and ways will inevitably drain us of energy and resources. Exertion=Exhaustion. On the other hand, death to self requires only that we lay down at the foot of the cross and give up the right to run our lives. We say with Christ, “Not my will but Yours be done Father.” The Crucified life is the entrance into true rest. #ComeAndDie”
― John Burton, The Coming Church