Quotes about Service

The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not "What did I get out of it?" but rather "Was God pleased with what happened?

We must continually ask ourselves: Is our first aim to change our government or to see lives in and out of government changed for Christ?

What would it look like if a Christian took literally Jesus' sweeping commands and acted on them. What would a Good Samaritan look like today, in urban America?

sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.

First, as should be clear by now, I believe that dispensing God's grace is the Christian's main contribution

Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job—binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry—I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth.

God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by "losing" life through service to God and others.

Let me see them as thirsty people, I pray, and teach me how best to present the Living Water.

God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.

the kingdom of God largely exists for the sake of outsiders, as a tangible expression of God's love for all.