Quotes from Matt Chandler

The cross of Christ is the response of God to men for belittling His name.

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

Faith doesn't mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God's goodness is greater.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

When God saves you, he doesn't do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he's God.

Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

God is more interested in declaring than explaining.

Every missionary I know is extraordinarily ordinary. Everything they do, they do by the grace of God.

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him.

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

There isn't a violent soul on the planet that God might not save and transform for himself.

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

Don't create theology about God so that you can feel better about Him.

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.

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

The glory of God is that you can't outs in His grace.

I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.