His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
– John R. W. Stott –
Gospel
Have No Rest Until … – George Whitefield
May you have no rest in your souls till you rest in Jesus Christ!
– George Whitefield –
from Select Sermons of George Whitefield
Let Jesus Be a Well Known Savior
Father, never allow me to become a well-known speaker. Let Jesus become a well-known Savior!
– Anonymous –
Missions Languish Because Godliness is Feeble – AT Pierson
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed, until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. There is little right giving because there is little right living, and because of the lack of sympathetic contact with God in holiness of heart, there is a lack of effectual contact with him at the Throne of Grace. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together, and a low standard in one means a general debility in the whole spiritual being.
– Arthur T. Pierson –
Our Guilty Silence – John Stott
Our Guilty Silence suggests that one of the main reasons for our silence is because we lack either a thorough knowledge of the Gospel or a conviction about its truth or both. There can be no evangelism without an evangelist, no mission without a message.
– John Stott –
from Our Guilty Silence
We Were Made for Another World – CS Lewis
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
– CS Lewis –
The Gospel Cannot Be Preached Enough – Martin Luther
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough … Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.
– Martin Luther –
The Gospel Is The Most Important Message – Jerry Bridges
The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history. Yet we allow thousands of professing Christians to live their entire lives without clearly understanding it and experiencing the joy of living in it.
– Jerry Bridges –
All Topics Should Be Studied Through the Lens of the Gospel – CJ Mahaney
The gospel isn’t one class among many that you’ll attend during your life as a Christian—the gospel is the whole building where all the classes take place! Rightly approached, all the topics you’ll study and focus on as a believer will be offered to you “within the walls” of the glorious gospel … [Nothing in the Christian life] can be rightly understood apart from God’s grace through Jesus’ death. They, and indeed all topics, should be studied through the lens of the gospel.
– CJ Mahaney –