Quotes from Steve McVey

Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.

...if I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it.

whenever a person holds onto personal rights, he sets himself up for the tyranny of fear when those rights are threatened. The only way to be free to experience God's will is to go thruogh life with a loose grip on everything around us. He is the only security we have life - and He is enough!

We must abide in Christ moment by moment, realizing that without His empowering presence the serpent of self-sufficiency will strike us, infecting us with it's poison.

To love others you must know how much you are loved.

Paul says that in order to prove the will of God in our lives, we must become like Isaac. We must totally surrender ourselves to God, yielding to His purpose regardless of what it may be. Absolute abandon to God is the foundation in knowing His will.

The flavor is not the important element. What really matters is the water. If th pitcher (Christian) is filled with water (Jesus), the flavor (personality) of th tea doesn't really matter. Some people will be drawn to Christ because of the appeal of one flavor, while other unsaved people will be more receptive to anothr. As long as they receive the Water of LIfe, what difference does the flavor make?

The Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and that the Spirit of God lives in you. Verse 17 says that "the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

it is not enough to know merely what the Bible says. In fact, that can be dangerous. What is essential is to understand what the Bible means.

You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me…" (John 5:39).

So we put ourselves in a dangerous place when we formulate concrete opinions about who God is without filtering our thoughts through Jesus.

Some things in life you just aren't going to be able to think your way through—so you might as well save yourself the stress by simply trusting your way through them.

Our behavior does not determine who we are!

It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me." Take that thought

The finished aspect of the work of Jesus Christ is real. We don't finish it by our faith. We simply experience it through believing.

Their holiness didn't have a thing to do with what they did or didn't do.

Focus on "the red letters" alone and you'll miss much of Him in the Bible. From beginning to end, it's all about Him!

There is a division in the Scriptures between the two covenants, but the one constant seamless message of the whole Bible is the grace of our Father revealed through the Son by the ministry of the Spirit.

We read or study the Bible for one reason: so that we will encounter the Living Christ. The Bible is not an end unto itself. The Bible is the divinely inspired witness that brings us to Christ Jesus.

The Incarnation of God in Jesus is the greatest moment that has ever occurred in time or eternity.

When somebody's religious identity is being challenged, things are bound to turn nasty quickly.

C.S. Lewis was right when he said, "Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.