Dr Warren Wiersbe notes that when Jesus said, “This is my body,” and, “This is my blood,” he did not transform either the bread or the wine into anything different. When the disciples ate the bread, it was still bread; when they drank the wine, it was still wine. However, the Lord gave a new meaning to the bread and the wine, so that, from that hour, they would serve as memorials of his death. In 1 Corinthians 11v24-25, Paul uses the phrase, “Do this to remember me.” The word “remember” carries the idea of a present participation in a past event. Because Jesus is alive, as we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, by faith we have communion with him (1 Corinthians 10v16-17). This is not some “magical” experience produced by the bread and cup, it is a spiritual experience that comes through our discerning of Christ and the meaning of the Supper (1 Corinthians 11v27-34).
Source: The Transformation Study Bible (NLT), Colorado USA: David C. Cook Publishers (2009), supplementary commentary on Mark 14:22-24, p.1704 by Dr Warren W. Wiersbe
Prayer is not just monologue. It is dialogue. God speaks to us as we pray. Samuel said, “Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening” (1 Samuel 3:10). But we all too often say, ‘Listen, Lord, for your servant is speaking!’
‘The Symptoms of Inner Peace’
- A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fear based on past experience.
- An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
- A loss of interest in judging self.
- A loss of interest in judging others.
- A loss of interest in conflict.
- A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
- A loss of ability to worry (this is a very serious symptom).
- Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
- Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
- Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the heart.
- Increasing susceptibility to love, extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
- An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than to make then happen.
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Jeff Rockwell
“Humility is not the same as timidity. Humility is a virtue, timidity is a disease.”
Jim Rohn
The rich young ruler wasn’t lost because he had money; he was lost because money had him. (See Luke 18:22-23.)
“The measure of our wealth is how much we would be worth if we lost all our money.”
John Henry Jowett
“Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer. He had the boundless certainty that prayer is always answered. Have we by the Spirit the unspeakable certainty that Jesus had about prayer, or do we think of times when God does not seem to answer prayer? “Everyone that asketh receiveth.” We say – ‘But…, but….’ God answers prayer in the best way, not sometimes, but every time, although the immediate manifestation of the answer in the domain in which we want it may not always follow.”
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, (2000 edition), Worcester: Oswald Chambers Publications, p.153
It is often said, ‘God hates the sin but loves the sinner’. But that is not quite true because God hates sinners and will judge them for what they have done. The statement should be, ‘God hates the sin but loves the repentant-sinner.’ – Psalm 11v5 (NIV) tells us: “The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.”
Let me challenge you and ask you this: Is the church there for you – to satisfy your needs, or are you also there for the church? Are you simply a consumer, or are you also a contributor? Sometimes we do need to come to church to receive, to just BE… to be a human being and not a human doing. There are seasons when we all need to do that but church is not just a place to attend; it’s not just a place to come and be ministered to. The living temple is meant to be an every man, every woman ministry. Church is not just a place to attend; it’s a community, a body to get involved with, to serve others, and help build this holy temple. We are the body of Christ; we need each other. You may recall these words written by St. Teresa of Ávila:
Christ has no body now but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world.
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good.
Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes; you are his body.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, led a team of over 2,000 scientists who collaborated to determine the three billion letters in the human genome – our own DNA instruction book. He said, ‘I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that.’
Francis Collins, The Language of God, Simon & Schuster UK, (2007), p.67
“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eye. It is the swing in your gait, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters. They have fortitude. They have staying quality. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With enthusiasm there is accomplishment. Without it there are only abilities.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of the Ford Motor Company
The Essence of Friendship: Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh the thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulcokcraig
If you think you’ve blown God’s plan for your life, rest in this… You, my beautiful friend, are not that powerful!
They told me I’m too optimistic, I told them my blood type is Be Positive!
When you are robbed by worry it is always an inside job.
Joy is the only commodity you can increase by giving it away.
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
Benjamin Franklin
The only way you’ll ever know that God is all you need is when God is all you’ve got.
“The rear view mirror in your car is meant for you to glance at, not stare in to. Similarly with life: It’s okay to look backwards every now and again, but looking continuously backwards is not the way forwards.”
R. Ian Seymour
John Wimber said: ‘The ability to hear what God is saying, to see what God is doing, and to move in the realm of the miraculous comes as an individual develops the same intimacy with and dependence upon the Father. How did Jesus do what he did? The answer is found in his relationship with the Father. How will we do the “greater things than these” which Jesus promised (John 14:12)? By discovering the same relationship of intimacy, simplicity and obedience.’
Source: Nicky Gumbel, Bible in One Year – Alpha (accessed 19/3/2015)
“Life is empty if we are not useful. We defy a primary purpose of our existence when we are not being useful. We abandon our gifts and talents and destroy the creative force within us when we are not being useful. We sacrifice joy, happiness, fulfilment, peace, and contentment when we are not being useful. We were born, I believe, to be “thoroughly used up” when we die. That is not to say that we exhaust ourselves, frantically filling our days with meaningless activities. Rather, it means understanding that we were created to fulfil a purpose and it is that purpose that empowers, inspires, and gives meaning to our lives.”
David McNally
David McNally, Even Eagles Need A Push, p.40
“Make it a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say, ‘I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day.’”
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), English clergyman and author
Rick Warren writes: Happiness depends on happenings. It comes from the root word hap, which means “luck” or “circumstances.” Joy is different: it goes deeper. Joy is an attitude, a choice. Joy is an inside job and is not dependant on circumstances. It is our choice to rejoice. Joy is what makes life – well – enjoyable. To live joyfully:
- develop the attitude of gratitude
- develop inner joy by giving
- develop inner joy by serving
- develop inner joy by sharing Christ with others
Rick Warren, God’s Power To Change Your Life, 2006, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, p.66-67ff
Are you ready for the greatest coaching advice in all of recorded history? Are you ready for a game plan that will ensure your ability to walk in victory and to never again be a victim of depression or discouragement? – Be thankful, honour God, praise him! – Rejoice in the Lord is a New Testament commandment, which means you don’t really get a choice! The strategy for a victorious life is to “Keep on rejoicing!” Joy is not just a spin-off from obedience to God. Joy is obedience to God! Joy is an act of obedience and we are commanded to rejoice in the Lord and to take delight in His presence. C. S. Lewis put it this way, “It is a Christian duty for everyone to be as joyful as they can be!” The entire goal of your life is to glorify God every day that you live. The goal of your life is to honour His Name with every choice you make, every word you speak and every thought you think. You honour God when you choose the joy of His presence. You don’t glorify Him through whining, complaining, bitterness or unforgiveness. You glorify God when you choose joy and thankfulness!’
Source: A Jolt of Joy, devotional on YouVersion, day 22 of 31
“Appreciate the patience of God. Think how he has borne with you, and still bears with you, when so much in your life is unworthy of him, and you have so richly deserved his rejection. Learn to marvel at his patience, and seek grace to imitate it in your own dealings with others; and try not to try his patience anymore.”
J. I. Packer, theologian, lecturer and author
A Christian is someone who enjoys a personal relationship with the risen Christ, a person who knows God personally. Christianity, that is, true Christianity, is not about rules, robes, rituals or reverends. True Christianity is not about religion, it’s about a relationship; it’s not about intellectual head knowledge, it’s about heart knowledge; it’s not about religious rule keeping or doing things a certain way, it’s about our love for Christ expressed in our willing obedience to follow Him.
R. Ian Seymour
A candle can light a whole room full of darkness and will not be dimmed by it. Light is stronger than darkness; darkness cannot prevail against light.
Failure isn’t failure unless you fail to learn from it.
The church is not just a place to attend it’s a community, a body, to get involved with. Sometimes people shy away from getting involved… they think of church being like a giant helicopter. They don’t want to get too close in case the get sucked into the rotas! But it shouldn’t be like that. Many hands (or many parts) make light work. Going on a rota once a month or once every two months is an expression of love and commitment to the body (a body which we all know isn’t perfect)! Friends, don’t look for a perfect church… it doesn’t exist. And if a perfect church did exist and you joined it, well then it would no longer be perfect, would it? There is no perfect church this side of heaven… we are all flawed, imperfect and broken, which is why we need each other. Don’t be a spectator. You are needed. Get involved. Where can you serve, where is there a need you can fill?
(It’s important that we understand, however, that a need does not necessarily constitute a call or a calling. There is a need to take the gospel to the four corners of the earth but it’s not everyone’s calling).
R. Ian Seymour
To make a real difference in the life of another has a ripple effect. Your helping or guiding someone else will touch the lives of many by virtue of having touched one. It is contagious.
Dr Creflo A. Dollar, U.S. Christian minister
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vincent T. Lombardi (1913-1970), American professional football coach
Jesus is both fully man and fully God. – Fully man, since Jesus was borne of Mary, and fully God since Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit. – Jesus is both the Son of Man and the Son of God. And thus Jesus is the perfect mediator between man and God. You see if Jesus was just a man; if he was only fully man he would not have been perfect and his sacrifice would not have been adequate. And if Jesus was fully God, then that wouldn’t have been a fair trade; it would have been God letting us off, with no real sacrifice, atonement or payment of sins.
“There is far more opportunity than there are people to see it.”
Thomas Edison (1847-1931) inventor
Why do we call Good Friday ‘good’? Because Easter Sunday proves that what Jesus accomplished at the cross is “good news” for all who believe and trust in him. Just before Jesus took his last breath he said, “It is finished” – not ‘I am finished!’ It was job done not game over! Good Friday would not be “good” if it were not followed by Easter Sunday. Remember things didn’t look good at the crucifixion but hold on… it might be Friday but SUNDAY IS COMING!
“Our worries are a bit like the birds of the air; you can’t prevent them from flying around your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.”
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
I asked God how much he loved me. He stretched out his arms as wide as he could and said, “This much” – and then he died!
“Hearing tells you that the music is playing; listening tells you what the song is saying.”
John Mason
The church has been likened to a football match, in which thousands of people desperately in need of exercise watch twenty-two people desperately in need of a rest!
“If you don’t decide where you are going, life will take you to a place you probably never wanted to be.”
Keith Harrell
“Man does not live by bread alone; sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
John C. Maxwell
How’s your prayer life? – If you can’t sleep at night do you count sheep or do you talk to the Shepherd?
God’s punishment of sin is never unjust. Quite the opposite in fact: God’s judgment is always just and His punishment of sin reveals His faithfulness to His own righteous character.
The Christian life reads rather like a weather report, don’t you think? We continually move from one storm to the next with a few showers and the occasional, sometimes prolonged, sunny-spells in between. Now I’m a fairly positive sort of person, at least most of the time. Someone once commented on this and asked: Ian you always seem so cheerful, is life such a mountain top experience for you? I replied that it was. Life is always a mountain top experience for me. It’s just that some days I am on top on the mountain and other days the mountain is on top of me!
R. Ian Seymour
“To the one you marry you are saying, ‘When my time comes to leave this world, when the chill of eternity blows away my birthdays and my future stands still in the night, it’s your face I want to kiss good-bye. It’s your hand I want to squeeze, as I slip from time to eternity. As the curtain closes on all I have attempted to do and be, I want to look into your eyes and see that I mattered. Not what I looked like or how much money I made, or even how talented I was. I just want to look into the eyes of someone who loved me and see that I mattered.”
T.D. Jakes
“There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.”
Billy Graham
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door, that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller (1880-1968), US author and lecturer who was blind and deaf from infancy.
“Praying teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very healthy lesson for proud beings like us. If God gave us favours without compelling us to pray for them, we would never know how poor we are.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning By Morning, October 13
Day by day, Lord,
Three things I pray:
to see you more clearly
love you more dearly,
follow you more nearly,
day by day. Amen.
St. Richard of Chichester (1197-1253), English Bishop, also known as Richard de Wyche
God delights in being a part of our lives. Do you know why he often doesn’t answer prayer right away? Because he wants to talk to us, and sometimes that’s the only way to get us to stay and talk to him.
John Eldredge
John Eldredge, Wild At Heart, 2001, Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p.36
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Edward Young (1683-1765), English poet and dramatist
“The greatest use of life is to so use your life that the use of your life will outlive your life.”
Mack R. Douglas (writer)
Jesus was born a man because he had to die as a man on behalf of all mankind. Jesus acted as our substitute. He came to die in our place, to offer himself as a perfect sacrifice on our behalf, taking our sin upon himself at the cross. Jesus died to pay the price for our sin so that we wouldn’t have to.
If you want to fly with the eagles don’t spend all your time around turkeys.
There are only three kinds of people in this world of ours: People who make things happen, people who watch things happen and people who sit back and wonder what on earth did happen! – Which category are you going to fall in to?
R. Ian Seymour
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can and for as long as you possibly can.”
John Wesley (1703-1791), English preacher and founder of the Methodist Church
“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper!”
– Quentin Crisp (1908-1999)
CONFESSION
Confession without repentance is just bragging!
If your desire for something persists, and you are godly in your thinking, it is a very good indication that God is leading you. In Philippians 2:23 we read, “It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.”
When you feel discouraged or defeated and you want to give up, remember this saying, “This too will pass.”
If things are easy going, beware! You might be heading downhill.
Greg Taunt, writer
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.”
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British lexicographer and writer
Jesus said, ‘Go and make disciples’ not – go and make converts to your opinion.
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, (2000 edition), Worcester: Oswald Chambers Publications, p.133
“The price of forgiveness is always less than the price of unforgiveness.”
Paul J. Meyer
There is often a difference between a healing and a miracle of healing. A miracle usually happens very fast whereas healing, at times, can be a progressive work.
Jesus, not only made unique claims, He also lived a unique life: a perfect life without sin and in full obedience to God. He taught with divine authority and amazed people with miraculous signs and wonders. The New Testament is full of eye witness accounts and testimonies of the disciples who witnessed Jesus perform wonderful miracles: miracles of physical healing; from curing a fever to leprosy to the lame being able to walk and people who were blind being given back their sight. They saw miracles of spiritual healing, with all sorts of demons and evil spirits being cast out. They saw miracles over nature such as turning water into wine, the feeding of thousands of people, Jesus walking on water and even controlling the weather, in calming the storm. And they even witnessed Jesus raising the dead with Jairus’ daughter, the widow’s son and Lazarus.
R. Ian Seymour, Empowered Personal Evangelism, Weybridge: New Wine Press (2014), p.41
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), British essayist and dramatist
It’s said that one of the shortest periods of time… is that time between when the lights turn green and the sound of the first horn behind you! Friend, choose to be a road ranger and not a road rager.
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And then give up. There’s no sense being a damn fool about it.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910), American novelist and humourist.
Don’t ever give up praying for that which is close to your heart – you never know it may only be one more prayer away.
The only thing we have ever contributed to our salvation is our sin!
“A talented trumpeter who toots his own horn winds up playing to an empty theatre. A talented trumpeter who lets others recognise his talents winds up a legend.”
Lisa Edmondson
Grace is when God gives us the things we don’t deserve.
Mercy is when God does not give us the things we do deserve.
“Gratitude takes three forms: A feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.”
John Wanamaker (1838-1922), U.S. merchant and pioneer of the department store
“This whole thing began with a mouse.” – Walt Disney
Walt Disney (1901-1966) died before Disney World in Florida was finally completed and open to the public. When, eventually, the park was ready Mrs Disney, Walt’s wife, was invited to say a few words at the opening ceremony. On the big day, the speaker said, “I wish that Walt could have seen this.” In response Mrs Disney simply said, “He did see it. That’s why it’s here.”
There is no doubt that most non-Christians will walk into our homes ten times faster than they will walk into our churches. As we get to know people as friends, they will begin to confide in us about their burdens, longings, aspirations, frustrations and emptiness. As they tell us these things, we can say quietly (if our experience was similar), “You know, I used to feel like that until I had an experience that completely changed my outlook on life. Would you like me to tell you about it?”
Paul Little (professor of evangelism at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)
Source: Paul Little, How to Give Away Your Faith, Downers Grove Illinois, IVP (1988 edition), p.46,59
You can be happy without being content but you cannot be happy if you are discontent. Decide, right now, to be happy with what you have while you work towards achieving all that you desire.
Confession is not praying a lovely prayer or making pious excuses, or trying to impress God and other Christians. True confession is naming sin – calling it by name that God calls it: envy, hatred, lust, deceit or whatever it may be. Confession simply means being honest with ourselves and with God; and others if they are involved too… True confession is the heart of repentance.
Source: The Transformation Study Bible (NLT), Colorado USA: David C. Cook Publishers (2009), commentary by Dr Warren W. Wiersbe, p.2130
Prayer Meetings: ‘Praying is like music. Instruments played on their own are good, but there is depth and richness of sound when a number play together. Praying with others will deeply enrich your prayer life. The Bible promises God’s special presence when groups meet for prayer, and it records some pretty spectacular answers to prayer. Have a look at the story of Peter’s miraculous escape from prison as an example of the power of group prayer (Acts 12:5-17). – Stephen Gaukroger
Stephen Gaukroger, First Steps: The handbook to following Christ, p.71
Man can live 40 days without food, 4 days without water, 4 minutes without air but only 4 seconds without hope! – Anon
Repenting is a gift that God gives us for our sake, not for His. Repenting doesn’t increase God’s desire to be with us. It increases our capacity to be with him.
Somebody once said, ‘Evangelism means handing out invitations to a free party that’s out of this world’.
“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of faith is the end of anxiety.”
George Müller
“You call for faith, I give you doubt to prove that faith exists. The greater the doubt the stronger the faith, I say, if faith overcomes doubt.”
Robert Browning (1812-1889, English poet)
God calls us to be conduits of his grace, not cul-de-sacs!
“The tragedy in life is not in failing to realise one’s goals, but in failing to have goals to realise.”
attributed to Isaiah Mayes
If you feel overwhelmed or confused about a decision that you’re trying to make, you’re probably caught up in yourself and not God’s voice. The Bible says, “God is not a God of disorder but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33a NIV). He is not the author of confusion. So if you’re feeling confused, guess what? It’s not God’s voice speaking in your life.
Rick Warren
Rick Warren, Hearing The Voice Of God, reading plan on YouVersion Bible app
There’s a story told that might help us, about a man of faith who was dying and who asked his Christian doctor to tell him about heaven. As the doctor fumbled for a reply, he heard a scratching at the door… and he had his answer. “Do you hear that?” he asked his patient. “It’s my little dog. I left him downstairs, but he has grown impatient, and has come up and he hears my voice. He has no notion what is inside this door… but he knows that I am here.” – And that’s the same for all of us: We don’t know exactly what lies beyond the Door, but we do know that Jesus is there.
- Jesus claimed deity for himself in a way quite clear to his listeners. He said on one occasion, ‘I and the Father are one’ (John 10:30).
- The high priest expressly asked him, ‘Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.’ Jesus answered, ‘Yes, it is as you say’ (Matthew 26:63–64).
- He announced for all to hear that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God (John 5:18).
- He said he had authority to forgive sins (Mark 2:10).
- He said he would come on the clouds of heaven and sit at the right hand of the Mighty One (Mark 14:62).
- Implying authority to judge men, he said: ‘The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son’ (John 5:22).
- Several times Jesus asserted that he himself had the authority and power to raise the dead (cf John 6:39–40, 54; 10:17–18).
- He claimed omnipotence (all power) with the bold words: ‘All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me’ (Matthew 28:18).
- In a conversation with some who were against him, Jesus remarked that Abraham rejoiced to see his coming. The Jews were dumbfounded: ‘You are not yet fifty years old… and you have seen Abraham?’ He replied, ‘I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am!’ (John 8:57–58). Of course He existed before Abraham since He was the Creator (who created Abraham!)
- Jesus was able to challenge his enemies with the question, ‘Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?’ (John 8:46).
- Jesus Christ accepted worship due only to God. After his resurrection He commended rather than rebuked doubting Thomas; who fell at his feet and declared with awe, ‘My Lord and my God!’ (John 20:28).
Source: Paul E. Little, Know What You Believe, p.54-66
“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
Martin Luther (1483-1546), German leader of the Protestant Reformation
“Human Beings are like tea bags: You don’t know your own strength until you get into hot water.”
Bruce Laingen, (American hostage held in Iran for 444 days)
Look in a mirror and you’ll see two things – your problem and your solution.
If we are honest, the return of Christ is not something we think a lot about, is it? In the West it seems to us all a bit nebulous, distant, far off, and we are more pre-occupied with the here and now! But Christians in other parts of the world – in third world countries or Christians who are suffering or persecuted – they think and pray for Jesus’ return, a lot!
Worries are like babies, they grow larger when you nurse them.
Satan and his minions were defeated on the cross, and we are now involved in the final mopping-up operation before the return of Jesus. As Christians, we need not be afraid of Satan; he has a great deal to fear from the activity of Christians. We are called to pray. We are involved in spiritual warfare, ‘though the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds’ (2 Corinthians 10:4). Prayer was a very high priority for Jesus, and it should be for us. In the words of the hymn, ‘Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on their knees.’
Nicky Gumbel, Alpha Questions of Life, 2007 edition, Eastbourne: Kingsway Communications, p.168-169
“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”
Charles Swindoll
Faith is not really faith unless it is all you are holding on to.
‘When you read the gospel stories about healings, you notice that Jesus and his disciples never prayed petitionary prayers for healing. Instead they commanded in prayer every time. Their prayers were not directed towards God, but towards people’s conditions.’ [Robby Dawkins who has a powerful healing ministry says ‘you’ve got to tell the body what to do.’] ‘You are not commanding God to do what you say. You are commanding the body that needs healing to respond because you are an ambassador – a representative of God’s Kingdom with authority to heal the sick.’
Quote from Bill Johnson & Randy Clark, The Essential Guide to Healing, p.223
People sometimes say to me, ‘I can’t believe in a God who sends people to hell.’ And I reply, ‘God doesn’t send people to hell. People make that choice for themselves. There is only one way to hell and that is to reject the only way to heaven.’
In the ancient world, actors in Greek dramas were called hypocrites because they wore a mask. God isn’t interested in a mask of humility and holiness, He’s wants the real thing.
“The life of each one of us will eventually serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition; or as an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.”
Jim Rohn, writer and speaker
