Matt Chandler Quotes

Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’

I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

So relational evangelism? Go for it, as long as it turns into real evangelism. You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what we’re called to do. You’re eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel. When the pure gospel is shared, people respond.

When God saves you, he doesn’t do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he’s God.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

God is awesome; he doesn’t need you to be awesome. He wants you to be obedient.

Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.

Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

When we join God in his plan for his global glory, we get to be a part of the cosmic take-your-kid-t o-work day.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

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.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

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.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

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.

The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

Where your delight is, the rest of your world is going to follow.

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

God is at work in the mess. That's the message of the Bible. That's why the Bible is not pretty. That's why it's grimy, because God is working in the mess. He's working in the tears.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.