Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord , God of hosts.
It is not enough for the church to only have the answer to the spiritual problem. The church must have the answer for both spiritual and physical problem of the city.
Whenever and wherever there is gospel movement, there will always be genuine believers and counterfeit believers. A healthy church is a comfortably messy church.
The widespread gospel movement happens not by the preaching of the superstar pastor but when every christian is filled with the Holy Spirit and gossip the gospel wherever they are.
The cross of Christ is not God's plan B; it is God's plan A. Before anything came to be, the cross was already predetermined. The plan and the purpose of God are unstoppable.
The more we try to keep our world from shaking, the more shakeable we are. We are so shakeable because we keep trying to stop our world from shaking. Only the gospel can give us the unshakeableness that we desire.