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Apologetics

Grace is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over the joy in sin.

John Piper

http://www.sovereigngraceministries.org/blogs/cj-mahaney/post/Don-DA-Carson-Preserving-A-Passion-for-the-Gospel.aspx

If the gospel-even when you are orthodox-becomes something which you primarily assume, but what you are excited about is what you are doing in some sort of social reconstruction, you will be teaching the people that you influence that the gospel really isn't all that important. You won't be saying that-you won't even mean that-but that's what you will be teaching. And then you are only half a generation away from losing the gospel.

D.A. Carson

That is why the unregenerate person cannot understand the urgency of the gospel message: until they see the depth of their sin and the holiness of God, they find no reason to seek remedy for their condition.

Sin

The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine...Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually

Death by Love (91)

Martin Luther

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Sep 29, 1770 Newburyport, Massachusetts. From the sermon: "How willingly would I live forever to preach Christ, but I die to be with him."

George Whitefield

Consider for a moment how precious it is that the Christian can say, "I have been crucified with Christ." This is a personal atonement, personal substitution. We revel in the awesome love of our Savior who loved us as individuals and gave Himself up for us. For me! Me, the hate-filled sinner who spurned Him and His love! How much less glorious is the idea, "Christ loved a generic group and died so as to give them the opportunity to possibly join the group and hence receive certain benefits.

The Potter's Freedom (248)

Monergism Salvation Election

Jesus is able to save not merely make savable.

The Potter's Freedom (240)

Monergism Salvation

The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

The Reason for God (181)

Tim Keller

It's Christ or nothing. And you better want it that way. Why? If it was 99.99% Christ and 0.01% you, you'd go to hell.

http://youtu.be/9W2fuFWUIL0 (around 54 minutes in)

The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.

Almost every single collapse involving denominations and churches in regard to historic Christian beliefs can be traced back to a degradation in that group's view of the Bible as the inspired and inerrant revelation of God's truth.

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible\'s Accuracy, Authority and Authenticity (p. 43). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Liberal Theology

God is not a megalomaniac when he makes much of Himself, we would be megalomanicas if we made much of ourselves, because we would be unloving and that is what is infinitely loving for God to do because when he draws our attention to Himself it's like inviting us to a fountain. He is the ultimately satisfying reality in the Universe.

reFocus Conference 2010

John Piper

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? ...How many times have I heard evangelists say, "It'll only take five minutes."? No my dear friend, it will take your life-all of it! "We're just trying to attract people and then we'll gradually bring them in further and further." That is what the cults do, that's not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism

It makes me so angry, when men treat the glorious gospel of Christ as though it was a first step into Christianity, that takes ten minutes of counselling, and then you go onto greater stuff.

Truth shines the most brightly against the backdrop of error.

The Potter's Freedom(14)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cl9n5tqFcc&t=230s

Apologetics

Rome demands men and women to believe things the Apostles never taught as part of the gospel today, and she does so because she rejects sola scriptura.

Roman Catholicism Sola Scriptura Tradition

Tradition is normally used negatively by the Apostles, and when it is used positively it is referring to the singular message of the Gospel, not to a secret, hidden, or unwritten and undefined body of "non-public" revelation.

(10:03) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cl9n5tqFcc

Tradition Roman Catholicism

One of the most insidious and dangerous aspects of grief can be summed up in one quotation: "I just want to get back to the way I was".

Grieving, 59

Grieving

The truth that God saves by Himself, by His own power, on the basis of His own will, defines the message of the Reformers.

The Potter's Freedom (36)

Salvation Monergism

But as I ran my hell-bound race Indifferent to the cost You looked upon my helpless state And led me to the cross. And I beheld God's love displayed You suffered in my place You bore the wrath reserved for me Now all I know is grace.

Song:All I Have Is Christ

Jordan Kauflin

Preach the gospel to yourself everyday.

The Gospel for Real Life

Jerry Bridges

God's children when they are spiritually healthy spend most of the time at the foot of the cross.

Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross Worldly

Conrad Mbewe

All the other revelations of God in Christ are like rays of sun breaking through the clouds. But the death of Christ for sinners was like a bolt of lightning. If we want to spend our minds to the fullest in knowing God to the fullest so that we can love him to the fullest, this is where we will focus.

DG Conference 2010

John Piper

Put the gospel first. And that means you must put the priorities of the gospel at the center of your prayer life.

Basics for Believers

D.A. Carson