Jeffrey

“The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.”
― James MacDonald, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

“Most of what is wrong in horizontal church flows from attempts to get green apples interested in Jesus. Green apples are very articulate about that they do and don't want in church. They don't want to hear about money, because that is one of their idols; they don't want to be told about sin, because that assaults pride; no interest in pressure to decide for Jesus, because that threatens their autonomy. Sadly when church becomes what green apples must have or they won't come. It ceases to be what it must be for God to attend. Church needs to be offensive to green apples or it can be helpful to those who are ripe.”
― James MacDonald, Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison