Matt Chandler Quotes

The commands of God are given, not to rob me of joy, but lead me into the fullness of joy.

Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don’t do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn’t work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn’t the focus.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

If we could understand how impossible our situation is, we would grow in reverence for the kingship of Christ.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

While the good news of the gospel may not appeal to everyone, the bad news of the gospel still applies to everyone.

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don’t know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

Thanksgiving is worry’s kryptonite.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.