Don’t just preach to your congregation for spiritual growth, assuming that everyone in attendance is a Christian; and don’t just preach the gospel evangelistically, thinking that Christians cannot grow from it. Evangelize as you edify, and edify as you evangelize. - Tim Keller
@mb5519114529291@TONYxTWO He didn’t ruin anything by cursing. God just revealed Himself to this man and he responded the only way he knew how. Jesus meets people where they are and then He changes them. The only people that won’t see past his “language” are the type of people Jesus lost his temper with.
External measurements cannot fill an internal ache.
“God had done so much for me that it was hard to believe there was more for me and still, there was a longing in my heart for something.” - William Durham
“The evangelist thinks in terms of the eternal, not the temporal. He/She recognizes a need and fulfills that need, making the most of any opportunity; they understand the reality of damnation that awaits the unbeliever. This compels the evangelist.”
Seeing solutions while other people are still trying to understand the problem tends to get you in trouble.
Make it make sense.
It makes my head and soul hurt.
"History will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening." | Ronald Reagan | October 27, 1964 | #ThinkOnThat#DontBePartOfTheProblem#BePartOfTheSolution