We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
– Vance Havner –
We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.
– Vance Havner –
Playing marbles with diamonds, thats what we are doing in the church today.
– Vance Havner –
The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints.
– Vance Havner –
Playing marbles with diamonds, thats what we are doing in the church today.
– Vance Havner –
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God’s name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
– Vance Havner –
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn’t like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, “Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.” I said, “That’s where I got my information about hell.”
– Vance Havner –
It’s not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
– Vance Havner –
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more
sermons into the fire.
– Vance Havner –
I’m convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
– Vance Havner –