Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

Whereas disinfecting Christians involves isolating them and teaching them to be good, discipling Christians involves propelling Christians into the world to risk their lives for the sake of others. Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can get into our buildings but on the hundreds or thousands who are leaving our buildings to take on the world with the disciples they are making

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!