Quotes about People

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people.

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?

I personally experienced what can happen when the gospel of Jesus Christ gets reduced to a series of theological ideas coupled with all the skills necessary to access those ideas. Bad things happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they represent and the people they are meant to free. One

These principles are deeply relational because the gospel is. Remember that the gospel of God's grace teaches us that lasting change of heart and hands always takes place in the context of relationship, first with God and then with the people of God.

The person next to you doesn't need the gospel more than you do; he just needs it differently than you do. All people sin and fall short.

When you are satisfied with the Giver, because you have found in him the life you were looking for, you are freed from the ravenous quest for satisfaction that is the discouraging existence of so many people. Yes, it is true that your heart will rest only ever when it has found its rest in him.

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

The overall biblical model is this: God transforms people's lives as people bring his Word to others.

Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?

the Bible is not a collection of stories, but one big story with lots of chapters. It is the story of how God meets weak and failing people with his powerful grace.