DeeDee Robbins

“Where we always look for and request deliverance from suffering, the testimony of Scripture is mostly about what God wants to do for us in our suffering.”
― Jared C. Wilson, Gospel Wakefulness

“Brothers, there are aspects of professionalism that make sense in our modern ministry contexts, but when all is said and done, we are not managers of spiritual enterprises; we are shepherds. And shepherds feed their sheep (Ezek. 34:2–3; John 21:15–17).”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Pastor's Justification: Applying the Work of Christ in Your Life and Ministry

“Today, churches large and small (the small imitating the large) have unthinkingly adopted a marketing mentality that, it turns out, subverts rather than promotes the gospel. We inadvertently imply that the church benefits as much from the spiritual transaction as does the recipient. Marketing, by its very nature, contradicts the essence of the gospel lifestyle of Jesus, who came not to be served, but to expend his life for others—no exchange implied or expected.4”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Prodigal Church: A Gentle Manifesto against the Status Quo

“The religious climate of Jesus’s day was evidence of what happens when no one stops the counterfeit. The Spirit of God had gone silent after Malachi, but that did not stop the spiritual authorities from trying to keep the whole mechanism turning under the power of their own self-righteousness. Can you imagine what it might be like to have been faking spiritual power for hundreds of years when suddenly the real thing shows up?”
― Jared C. Wilson, The Wonder-Working God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Miracles