Quotes from Mark Dever

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

By the grace of God I am what I am

Prayer is the preview of God's action.

We should want to evangelize because of the joy that God puts in our hearts. Ultimately, that's the best reason for sharing our faith.

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

God can use even stray, honest comments to bring people to himself.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God.

To evangelize properly by delivering the gospel, we need to follow God's agenda.

If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you.

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church's job is to listen and then to echo.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.

Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.

There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.

From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

I think we have to realize that God sometimes gives us more time to pray, and when he does this, we can pray that he will bless those who have opportunities to speak to others.

A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.

Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all. (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)

the first step toward the one true God is to acknowledge that we are not that God.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.