Derwin Gray

If we attempt to provide for others without first being nourished ourselves, we burn out. We wound ourselves and others.

Confrontational evangelism is not wrong; it is just that very few believers are effective at it. But we can all build relationships with people and share the gospel.

A winning church culture should be a disciple-making conduit.

The God who bled for you, who died for you, who rose from the dead for you, and who now lives in you through the Holy Spirit, believes in you.

You are going to try and find healing somewhere. If it’s not in Jesus, the devil will destroy you and your family and your ministry.

You are never stronger than when you are on your knees in weakness.

The apostle Paul, a missional-pastoral leader, says it this way: “He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ as a plan for the right time—to bring everything together in Christ, both things in heaven and things on earth in him” (Eph. 1:9–10).

American pulpits and some discipleship strategies have often reduced the magnificence of the gospel to simply to a trip to heaven when we die or only the forgiveness of sins.