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Matt Chandler QUOTES

Matt Chandler QUOTES

1 " He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that. "

― Matt Chandler

2 " We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. "

― Matt Chandler , The Explicit Gospel

3 " Ladies, if you’re single there is nothing wrong, sinful or wicked about desiring a husband, nothing. Anyone who would say otherwise is absolutely lying to you. God wired you for it, He built you for it. Men, there is nothing wrong, wicked, or evil about wanting a wife. I don’t know when that happened, I don’t, now listen I do think that you need to be content where you are today, alright, but listen I’m content with what Christ is doing in me today but I don’t want to be who I am today, I’m hoping Christ will complete what He began. It’s okay, it’s alright, who made it so complicated? it’s okay, it’s okay to want a wife, it’s okay to want a husband, those are good things, they’re really good things. It’s okay, it’s okay to want. "

― Matt Chandler

4 " Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children. "

― Matt Chandler , Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

5 " Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts? "

― Matt Chandler , Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

6 " The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you. "

― Matt Chandler

7 " You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation. "

― Matt Chandler , The Explicit Gospel

8 " There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning. "

― Matt Chandler

9 " Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in. "

― Matt Chandler , Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

10 " If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary. "

― Matt Chandler

11 " Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God. "

― Matt Chandler , Recovering Redemption: How Christ Changes Everything, Member Book

12 " Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven. "

― Matt Chandler , Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

13 " It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today. "

― Matt Chandler

14 " This passage, by the way, doesn't just give us the comparative negative of hell, but it translates well into a theology of suffering. With these words of Jesus in mind, I can now know that it is better never to hold my children, it is better never to run my fingers through my wife's hair, it is better not to be able to brush my own teeth, it is better never to be able to drive a car, it is better to be paralyzed and never feel anything from the neck down, and it is better to have stage III anaplastic oligondendroglioma than to find myself outside the kingdom of God.

It is better never to see the sunset or the sunrise, never see the stars in the sky, never to see my daughter in her little dress-up clothes, never to see my son throw a ball - it is better never to have seen those things than to have seen those things and yet end up outside the kingdom of God. How horrible hell must be. "

― Matt Chandler

15 " When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us. "

― Matt Chandler

16 " A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song. "

― Matt Chandler

17 " Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis. "

― Matt Chandler , Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

18 " You are being discipled by something. "

― Matt Chandler

19 " Sin is the native language in every ZIP code. "

― Matt Chandler , Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

20 " Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens. "

― Matt Chandler