Quotes from Eric Mason

Men, if your wife is lifeless, uncommitted to the Lord, spiritually docile, and ineffective in her role as a wife, you need to consider not what is wrong with her, but rather what your role is in her being in that state. It doesn't all fall on you, just as it's not Jesus' fault if you aren't moving forward spiritually. But you must think long and hard about whether you have truly died to yourself enough to empower your wife to the glory of Jesus.

Beating God to the punch is about reaching out for what you could have never earned, achieved, or deserved.

Pilgrim tells us we are people who spend our lives going someplace, going to God, and whose path for getting there is the way, Jesus Christ.2

The words of Martin Luther King Jr. help to inspire us and give us much needed hope when we want to quit loving those who wrong us: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

God designed humans with a unique capacity for relationship because it was His intent that this centerpiece of His creation, man and woman, would be relationally connected to Him for eternity. Without relationship none of the other aspects of being an image bearer would matter.

Hebrews 10:4 says, 'For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." This lets us know that all of the sacrifices that have been made never took away sins. Although God valued them-in that their sacrifice was a sign of obedience-they didn't act as an eternal propitiation for our sins.

Jesus is our redemption, the purchase of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. Our ransom isn't from Satan, but from the wrath of God (Rom. 5:9).

Following Jesus is a foundational concept in the Synoptics, especially in the Gospel of John.

It takes God to desire God.

God's gospel stirs desire in us, which leads to our working—through His strength, on His desired goals for our lives.

In our own city, we do an analysis every year. We ask our community: What are the top three needs in the community? What are the three greatest influences? And what are the churches in this community doing to put a dent in those three needs

Our separation from God is so embedded that our dysfunction has become the new normal.

Therefore, both have an equal relationship with God, but each is distinct in how he or she represents Him and lives out their responsibility toward Him.

You can speak on justice and race with rhetorical excellence, but if the gospel isn't presented, heart change won't happen.

There was much more wrapped up in that piece of fruit in the garden than just a bad decision. With sin, there always is. We talk ourselves into thinking that sin is just a bad choice; it's not. It's much deeper than that for us, just as it was for Adam.

most of the devolution of our contemporary culture can be traced directly to the brokenness of men today. Whether the issue is faithfulness, crime, poverty, or a myriad of other social ills; at the core is the failure of men to become what God has created them to be.

We must address the things that happen in our culture exegetically, expositionally, theologically, historically, critically, lovingly, passionately, humbly, and with Jesus at the center.

As men, we must not become lethargic in our vigilance against things that would attempt to destroy manhood.

one of the most powerful definitions of leadership: "Leadership is taking the initiative for the benefit of others.

When you look at this stone you see a rock, but when I look at it I see an image in the rock. All I am trying to do is get to the image by removing everything else in the way." That is what God does through the process of restoration. We have been restored already, and yet we are still being restored. The image is there, but a lot is left around it.

At our core, without being conscious in Christ, our souls are still in bondage and can only see things from the natural, fleshly appearance. Our Christ Consciousness gives the double consciousness depth and character. Our Christ Consciousness elevates our awareness to our responsibility to care for and love our brothers—even those who don't look like us.

However, if one is regenerated by the gospel, yet unaware of the double consciousness of African Americans and other ethnic minorities in America, one's clarity on justice and race issues will be clouded and even absent. Therefore, to be fully woke, one needs to have all three aspects of consciousness.

them. Yet in reality, Christianity spread from Jerusalem to Africa and then to Europe. Christianity's headquarters were in Alexandria, Egypt well before Christendom formed in Rome.