Don Everts > Quotes

“There’s something about having limited horizons that makes everything right around you appear to be monumental and important, even if in reality it is relatively insignificant.”
― Don Everts, Breaking the Huddle: How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness

“Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.”
― Don Everts, Jesus with Dirty Feet: A Down-to-Earth Look at Christianity for the Curious Skeptical

“Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.”
― Don Everts, Breaking the Huddle: How Your Community Can Grow Its Witness

“If I were Jesus and were about to hand Peter the authority to start and lead my church on earth, I would want to know if he was going to be more stable, more strong, more consistent. But no. Jesus has only one question for Peter. A simple one: Do you love me?
Do you love me?
He asks three times. And three times Peter says that he does. And three times Jesus calls him to "feed his sheep." Peter's new role and authority, Jesus asserts, do not rest on his strength and consistency and oaths but on his love for Jesus....
Jesus wanted Peter to remember what it was really all about.”
― Don Everts, God in the Flesh: What Speechless Lawyers, Kneeling Soldiers and Shocked Crowds Teach Us About Jesus

“If we believe we are just being naughty in the classroom of life, how can we ever hear this beautiful invitation from Jesus? If we believe in lukewarm sin, won't our repentance be lukewarm as well?”
― Don Everts, The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace

“Perhaps we no longer know what it means to repent because we no longer know what it means to sin.”
― Don Everts, The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace

“When I ignore my neighbor (instead of loving him or her as Jesus commands), I am rolling around in my old grave clothes, rather than living as a new creation.”
― Don Everts, The Smell of Sin: and the Fresh Air of Grace