Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful. Matt Chandler More Quotes by Matt Chandler More Quotes From Matt Chandler Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand. Matt Chandler errandsmotivationsuffering Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious. Matt Chandler being-thankfulbrokenself We’ve got to get past this idea that God is most glorified when we’re rich, healthy and wealthy and we go, “Isn’t God grand? Look at all He gave me.” Because if anybody joins us in that and says, “Oh, if you love Jesus, you get a house and health and cars? Then I love Jesus too.” Because then all of a sudden you’ve got a different religion. You have the religion of cars and houses, not God. Matt Chandler pastideasjesus The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity. Matt Chandler maturitychristianviews God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'. Matt Chandler trinityemergenciesneeds There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them. Matt Chandler fightingstrongspiritual God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material. Matt Chandler raw-materialsmaterialsneeds The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself. Matt Chandler newsmessagesneeds The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him. Matt Chandler betrayedstuffchrist He created the flavors! He created the colors. He created it all, and he did it all out of the overflow of his perfections. It’s not like he was thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve got some fajita flavoring over here. I know: let’s put it on the cow and the chicken.’ He created the avocado to have a certain flavor; he created the skirt steak, the fillet, and the tenderloin to have certain flavors. That was God’s doing. So every aspect of creation, from the largest galaxy to the tiniest burst of flavor in food or drink or seasoning, radiates the goodness of God. Matt Chandler colorperfectionthinking Many of the things that stifle growth are morally neutral. They're not bad things. Facebook is not bad. Television and movies are not bad. I enjoy TV, but it doesn't take long for me to begin to find humorous on TV what the Lord finds heartbreaking. Matt Chandler growthhumorouslong Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation Matt Chandler ascentdoctrineintellectual Apart from worshiping God, everything becomes superficial. But when you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there's an eternal amount of joy at our disposal, because everything we do is enlightened and enlivened by the endless glory of the eternal God. Matt Chandler drivinggloryjoy I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome. Matt Chandler usedguyrooms Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him. Matt Chandler theologyfeel-betterfeels We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. Matt Chandler revelationsreasonfirsts The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all. Matt Chandler heartbelievelying If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong. Matt Chandler beastcowardgone The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation. Matt Chandler adjustingspiritualdoubt Truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it's true truth, God owns it and has already accounted for it, and while nothing that is true ever contradicts God's revealed word in the Bible, discovered truth sometimes contradicts the words of Christians. We shouldn't be afraid of this, because God knew it before anybody else and its discovery is dependent on his sovereignty anyway. The truth is that the truth is ours - all truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God. Matt Chandler christiandiscoverypeople
