Mark Ashton > Quotes

“The notion that you can come to church on Sunday and bend your knee in worship when in fact you have not done so during the week is a delusion.”
― Mark Ashton, Worship by the Book

“The local church exists for the sake of others”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church

“Thou art a minister of the Word; Mind thy Business!”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church

“Every day I need to hear that voice behind me saying: ‘This is the way; walk in it’ (Isa. 30:21),”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church

“What ought to make worship delightful to us is not, in the first instance, its novelty or its aesthetic beauty, but its object: God himself is delightfully wonderful, and we learn to delight in him.”
― Mark Ashton, Worship by the Book

“The gospel is never about seeking our own comfort, and it always drives the local church out to do more for God in the world.”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church

“The gospel calls us to change – the change of conversion if we are not yet Christian, and the change of sanctification (growing more like Jesus) if we are.”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church

“Self-sacrifice is a hallmark of healthy church life.”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church

“the gospel is never about seeking our own comfort”
― Mark Ashton, Christ and His People: Eight Convictions about the Local Church