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Quotes from Tim Chester

Sacrifice becomes an opportunity to express our delight in God. What we give up seems small in comparison to what we're gaining.
~ Tim Chester
The gospel is good news—a message to be proclaimed, a truth to be taught, a word to be spoken, and a story to be told.
~ Tim Chester
Our actions don't make us Christians or make us more of a Christian or keep us as Christians—for our union with God is all his work. Our actions do make a difference to our enjoyment of God—for our communion with God (our enjoyment of our union with God) involves a two-way relationship.
~ Tim Chester
Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour you are as it is about the kind of church member you are. It is as much about who you are when you are holding a steering wheel as who you are when you are holding a Bible.
~ Tim Chester
The table fellowship of Jesus, with its ethic of grace rather than reciprocity, was creating a new countercultural society in the midst of the Empire.
~ Tim Chester
Al igual que la iglesia deja de ser iglesia si no es misionera, la teología deja de ser teología si pierde su carácter misionero.
~ Tim Chester
The growth of God's kingdom is synonymous with the spread of God's word. The kingdom grows through the word as it elicits faith.
~ Tim Chester
Owen said, "You can no way more trouble or burden the Father, than by your unkindness in not believing in his love".
~ Tim Chester
know this, that when you cannot pray, Christ prays for you, and he prays that you may pray.
~ Tim Chester
May heaven be in my heart by faith, and may my heart be in heaven by spiritual meditation.
~ Tim Chester
People don't want to be projects.
~ Tim Chester
At the heart of our vision is not a new way of doing events but the creation of Word-centered gospel communities in which people are sharing life with one another and with unbelievers, seeking to bless their neighborhoods, "gospeling" one another and sharing the good news with unbelievers. The context for this gospel-centered community and mission is not events but ordinary, everyday
~ Tim Chester