Zeke Shatzer’s Reviews > Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry > Status Update

“…the inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain, indeed as more gain than all that life can offer…” -Pg 235

“Aborting unborn children falls under Jesus’s rebuke of those who spurned children as inconvenient and unworthy of the Savior’s attention.” -Pg 224

“By judging difficult and even tragic human life as a worse evil than taking life, abortionist contradict the widespread biblical teaching that God loves to show His gracious power through suffering, and not just by helping people avoid suffering.”
-Pg 223

“The destruction of conceived human life—whether embryonic, fetal, or viable—is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.”
-Pg 222

“God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using to alleviate the misery of unevangelized and uneducated and unhoused and unfed millions.”
-Pg 169

“God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god.” -Pgs 168-169

“Trust humility senses that that humility is a gift beyond our reach. If humility is the product of reaching, then we will instinctively feel proud about our successful reach. Humility is the gift that receives all things as gift. It is the fruit not of our achievement but of the Holy Spirit.” -Pg 166

“…speaking the truth is service to Christ and love to others, even if they consider themselves your adversaries.” -Pg 14

“We must assume mistreatment, and not be indignant when we get it.” -Pg 163

"A minister's life in Christ shares all the weaknesses (and more) that brought Christ to the cross. "We also are weak in Him." But in our weakness God's power triumphs with two effects: (1) We share in Christ's resurrection life...(2) We love and serve the church in this weak power."
-Pg 142