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“…in which you stand…” communicates two distinct yet related truths. The former a great foundation stone you. Which the Christian’s faith must rest: he is able to stand before God in Christ and the gospel. The latter is a powerful agent in shaping the Christian’s life: he has made his stand upon the gospel and will not be moved.

“God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made. Therefore the man who desire to receive the benefits of the gospel must first decide if he is willing to turn over all autonomy and self government to the Lord of the gospel.”

“The gospel is not merely an introductory message to Christianity—it is the message of Christianity, and the believer would do well to give his life in the pursuit of knowing its glory and making its glory known.”

“One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it’s from this neglect that all our other maladies spring forth. The lost world is not so much gospel hardened as it is gospel ignorant because many of those who proclaim the gospel are also ignorant of its basic truths.”

“We’ve got to do more than lead songs; we’ve got to disciple people. If nobody’s following us Monday through Saturday, we’re not leading worship; we’re just leading songs.”

“When pastors learn to empower creatives (as opposed to importing creativity), it allows the congregation to lead worship through word, symbol, music, visual art, and architecture that uniquely reflects our tribe—our unique, local, context. This is contextualizing in the best possible sense: the gospel has impacted our lives, and we respond with our own celebration and proclamation of that changeless gospel.”

“… the [church] body passively consumes… note for note something that came from another context. Rather than making disciples and carefully discerning context, we can simply purchase and import from others. But if we want to empower Christ’s church to use their gifts… it’s worth the effort.”

“Here is the very heart of biblical worship: God speaks, and we respond. This fundamental principle of “revelation and response” should guide every form and part of our worship service. God speaks through His Word, His Son, His Holy Spirit, and we respond through our words, songs, bodies, and service to each other and the world.”

“May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering! Not “pray for us.” Not even “pray for the people we’ll be serving.” They wanted Jesus to get glory; that’s the point. That’s worship as the goal of missions.

“If we are not using Scripture in our worship sets then we are leading people into idolatry. If the Word is how we put God on display, which leads to worship and joy and mission, then we must be filling our worship gathering with the Bible.”

“The greatest injustice in the universe is that there are human beings who do not worship Jesus Christ.”

“True expository preaching that seeks to exegete and apply the Scripture will always arrive at God’s ‘authorial intent’ if lifting up the gospel of Jesus. Christ will be preached from every text, and the gospel will be the core of application.”

“Because the Spirit has applied the perfect worship of the Son to us, we’re free to worship as one’s delighting in God’s glory rather than one’s seeking to earn it.”

“Trinitarian worship, then, at its core, is the worship of the Father, through the Son, by the power of the Holy Spirit. That said, should we only directly worship the Father and not all three Persons? Not at all. If anything, the above statement is meant to show the Trinitarian direction and shape of worship by highlighting each of the Person’s roles.”

“The perfect worship that the Father demands has found all its qualifications met in the Son’s righteous living—both His personal piety and His fully obedient participation in corporate worship—while on earth.”

“Churches are looking for songs with no heresy. That is not enough.”

“Worship leaders are singing theologians. We communicate truth with poetry and verse; we organize doctrine with rhythm and rhyme; we proclaim the good news through melody and harmony. With every stanza of every hymn, we are articulating and teaching what we believe, intentional or not.”

“The motto of our practices of worship must not be ‘forward’ but ‘backward’ to the Scripture. This describes the important work and trajectory of the modern worship leader: always back to Scripture.

“Therefore our pursuit is not to lead worship, but to worship. And as we are set ablaze by God’s truth, we become enabled to lead the people of God in life-transforming worship.”

“It is no longer a question in his mind whether they will accept or reject [the gospel]; it becomes rather a question of truthfulness in the declaration of the message.”

“It is no longer a question in his mind of whether they will accept or reject [the gospel]; it becomes rather a question of truthfulness in the declaration of the message.” (Lewis Sperry Chafer)

“the believer’s reconciliation as an accomplished thing, both objectively and subjectively, since that had received Christ and thus reconciling work by faith (cf. Rom. 5:10)…. by his use of the present participle in verse 19… while the reconciling took place historically… it is ever going on as men believe and thus appropriate the objectively historical reconciliation by means of faith.”

“From the grammatical standpoint it is important to note the tenses used in 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19… of the believer’s reconciliation Paul uses the aorist tense, which denotes an act that is finished (v. 18)…. of the reconciliation of the world he uses the present tense, indicating the continuous process (v. 19)…

“Faith does not save; Christ saves and Christ alone.”

“While in the experience of the individual, faith in Christ is a result of choice, as act of the human will, it is nevertheless a work of efficacious grace.”

“Men must come of believe to be saved, and yet they will not have the desire or the ability to come unless and until they are drawn by God to do so. (1 Cor 2:14, Eph 4:18, Rom 8:7, 2 Cor 4:4). Therefore, before a man can or will ever come to Christ, the Spirit of God must effectually call him, show him his sin, his need of God’s righteousness in Christ, and bring him to faith in Christ as Savior.”

“We have thus twofold truth concerning salvation in Christ—the sinner must come; yet he will not come unless drawn by the Father.”

“The normal pattern for regeneration is that it occurs at the moment of saving faith… not one sinner, though commanded of God to believe in Christ as Savior for their salvation or suffer the consequences, will be saved unless and until the Holy Spirit brings him to the conviction of his sin and the realization of his need of Christ. John 6:44.”

“…Christ died to provide a basis of salvation for all men. To those who are the elect and who therefore believe in Christ, this provision secures for them their eternal salvation, when they believe. For those who do not believe and thus evidence the fact that they are the non-elect, the provision exists as a basis of condemnation.”

“The benefits of Calvary are realized and applied only to those who believe, but the provision reached to every member of Adam’s race.”