God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself. Mark Dever More Quotes by Mark Dever More Quotes From Mark Dever Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph. Mark Dever triumph powerful example Do you want to know that your new life is real? Commit yourself to a local group of saved sinners. Try to love them. Don’t just do it for three weeks. Don’t just do it for six months. Do it for years. And I think you’ll find out, and others will, too, whether or not you love God. The truth will show itself Mark Dever real years thinking I recognize that not all of us may have the same abilities and talents in sharing the gospel. But I want to keep the heat on all of us for getting the good news out there. Mark Dever news want may Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity. Mark Dever unity division should The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. Mark Dever arise church We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind. Mark Dever next mind world If joy or urgency are missing from our presentation of the gospel, then our testimony to Christ will be missing that sort of fullness that we find in the New Testament. Mark Dever missing joy christ For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will. Mark Dever rooted gods-will christian The church is the gospel made visible. Mark Dever visible church made Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried when we don't invest our lives in this-worldly concerns. They look on us as unpredictable free agents. When we reject their relativism and make absolutist spiritual claims, they look at us as nervously as they would a terrorist with a suicide bomb strapped to his back. Of course, Christians are not into coercion in any form. But it is very hard to persuade secularists of that. Mark Dever suicide spiritual christian Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His. Mark Dever heritage christian blood We are all called to initiate involvement in each other’s lives... We covenant together to work and pray for unity, to walk together in love, to exercise care and watchfulness over each other, to faithfully admonish and entreat one another as occasion may require, to assemble together, to pray for each other, to rejoice and to bear with each other, and to pray for God’s help in all this. Mark Dever unity together exercise Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation. Mark Dever membership salvation church Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls. Mark Dever soul grace war If you say that the gospel lays a claim upon people, then you are invading their personal space, and they feel as though you have no right to be there. Now we don't even begin preaching the gospel until we get into their personal space and they feel the demands of God upon them. Mark Dever preaching-the-gospel space people God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body. Mark Dever individual glory body If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all! Mark Dever teaching christian believe If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist. Mark Dever offending ifs people There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh. Mark Dever offence flesh sensible Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people. Mark Dever usa australia media
