QUOTES OF THE WEEK - June 2-12, 2013

"QUOTES I'VE READ THIS WEEK"

 

Some of us like to read and others of us don't.   I love to read and learn and therefore I read a fair bit but there is so much out there to read, some good, some bad, some terrible.   
I can't get to it all and maybe you feel the same way.   Sometimes there are memorable or important things a book says but you don't have time to read it all.    From time to time,   I'd like to share with you some quotes from some of what I'm reading.   Perhaps it will spark your thinking on a subject or cause you to enter into a discussion or perhaps even pick up the book and read it.    In any event I hope that "Quotes I've Read This Week" will be a blessing and a challenge to you and in a small way help build up the Church of Christ.


The more people who report to you, the more people who can be upset with you. The more people who listen to your message, follow your tweets, and read your stuff, the more people who can fire shots at you. This is one of the irrefutable laws of leadership: the broader your influence flowing down, the more frequent the complaints can flow back up. Don’t be surprised by the fiery trials. Don’t be startled by opposition. Don’t let the ugliness of manipulation, the weakness of passive-aggressive behavior, and the cowardliness of retaliation took root in your soul.
(Blog Post of Kevin DeYoung one of my favourite young authors)
Kevin DeYoung's blog address:  http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/

 
The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.    (2Chronicles 15:2)


As future leaders of the church, now is the time to deal with the past.
Paul Nyquist  The Post Church Christian

When discussing the artificiality of small group experience:
"But what happens when people start confessing safe sins is that everyone in the room starts concealing their real junk."
Carson Nyquist    The Post Church Christian


 When you're drowning in a culture of Christianity that approves of everyone, people will look for more.  Why? Because cheap Christianity, with low expectations, is virtually meaningless.
Carson Nyquist    The Post Church Christian

 

 

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.

—E. M. Bounds


As the English writer, G.K. Chesterton, put it, “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” We should rest in knowing that our God has us securely on a trajectory that’s getting us nearer to our destination, though it may appear to some that we’re moving away from it."
Fred Antonelli

Strangers who shout religious dogma are a turn off.
Carson Nyquist    The Post Church Christian

An authentic portrait of the church ...  It is a growing place, filled with imperfect people who seek to follow Jesus but sometimes fail.

Paul Nyquist    The Post Church Christian

 

In our desire to touch a hurting, dazed world, what is out of bounds?   Where do we cross the line and abuse our freedom in Christ? ... The path is not clearly marked in Scripture. ...  But this does not mean Scripture is silent here.  It speaks.  But it instructs us through principles not rules.

Paul Nyquist    The Post Church Christian