Michael Gordon

“guilt says, “I have done wrong,” shame says, “I am wrong.”
― Michael John Cusick, Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle

“If we are ever going to learn to freely delight in God, we must first learn to be delighted in.”
― Michael John Cusick, Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle

“An idol,” wrote Tim Keller, “is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give you.”
― Michael John Cusick, Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle

“Friendship evangelism is great, but it does not enable the gospel to travel beyond our social networks, unless there are intentional attempts to build friendships with people who are not like us. John Mark Hobbins of London City Mission says, ‘Many people live in networks which take precedence over their address, and many churches have grown because of this. But the reality for many people living in social housing or in cheaper housing is that their address is very likely to define their daily life.”
― Tim Chester, Unreached: Growing Churches In Working-Class And Deprived Areas