Peyton Jones: The Lost Art of Mission—Part 2
"What they want is what the church isn’t offering: mission. If we will lead the way, they will follow."
"What they want is what the church isn’t offering: mission. If we will lead the way, they will follow."
“The best thing pastors can do is to get off the pedestal so their family can get off it as well.”
"Pastors’ wives wish their husbands understood how painful it is when pastors treat the church as their mistress."
“Grace often gets put on the opposite side of sanctification, but that’s not biblically true. In Scripture it’s all about grace.”
“In the church we want grace to be the motivation for our godliness, to be what inspires how we treat other people.”
"Preaching and proclamation cannot be separated from lived-out mission, especially in a ‘post-truth’ world.”
"God is so transcendent. Rather than being fearful of that, or worried, we should turn to face it, look directly at it in Scripture.”
"Wisdom without courage is riskless. Courage without wisdom is reckless. But wisdom and courage together is priceless."
"Inspiring and training believers to share their faith is one of the biggest challenges we have in the Western church."
“We need to recognize that even believers see the world in certain ways based upon ethnicity, class and gender.”