Tim Adeney > Quotes

“There’s no question that false teaching poisons a church and dishonours God. But so too does ‘false living’ — whether it’s the false living of flagrant sin, or the false living of a quiet adherence to the middle-class values of the surrounding culture. This dishonours God in itself, but it also clouds the gospel for the watching world. If our church has orthodox teaching but unchanged lives, we communicate two contradictory messages: on the one hand, we say that following Jesus is the most important thing in the world; on the other, we show that following Jesus makes little or no difference.”
― Tim Adeney, Organizing Love in Church

“If we’re not seeing our church grow in love for God, his people, and his world, it’s possible that we’re doing all the right things, but God’s just not blessing our efforts. But where there’s a lack of fruit, it’s at least worth asking whether the vine needs tending — whether what we’re doing is in fact what God has asked us to do, or whether there are things we’ve inadvertently overlooked. Because our hope is that when God blesses, he blesses through us rather than in spite of us.”
― Tim Adeney, Organizing Love in Church