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Kevin DeYoung QUOTES

Kevin DeYoung QUOTES

1 " The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians. "

― Kevin DeYoung

2 " Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts. "

― Kevin DeYoung , What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?

3 " The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart. "

― Kevin DeYoung , The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

4 " And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

5 " The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God. "

― Kevin DeYoung

6 " I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

7 " You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me

8 " Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law. "

― Kevin DeYoung , What is the Mission of the Church?: Making sense of social justice, Shalom and the Great Commission

9 " Effective love is rarely efficient. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

10 " The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

11 " Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

12 " The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

13 " One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

14 " If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)

15 " Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has grown. We say, 'The sun has broken through.' Our view of the sun has changed, or obstacles to the sun have been removed, but we have not changed the sun. "

― Kevin DeYoung , What is the Mission of the Church?: Making sense of social justice, Shalom and the Great Commission

16 " The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded by the kingdom of darkness. Just as an embassy is meant to showcase the life of a nation to the surrounding people, so the Church is meant to manifest the life of the Kingdom of God to the people around it. "

― Kevin DeYoung , What is the Mission of the Church?: Making sense of social justice, Shalom and the Great Commission

17 " We will have to work hard to rest. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

18 " I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.

Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week "

― Kevin DeYoung , Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion

19 " Real life applications get tricky when we think about them. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

20 " Battling busyness is a community response. "

― Kevin DeYoung , Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem