Reality, formerly titled Quotes

I've seen the world, folks. I've seen that it is lost, and that there are billions of people out there that don't know God. Now either it's His fault, or it's ours.
-Keith Green

Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.
-Smith Wigglesworth

In order for our prayers to be effective, we have to be ruthless with our sin.
-Keith Green

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
-Oswald Chambers

I want to obey God even when it hurts to do so. Because what it hurts, I want to see die.
-Unidentified, alluding to his flesh

It is not the daily increase but the daily decrease; Hack away the unessential.
-Bruce Lee

And as much as you've not done it to the least of my brethren, you've not done it unto me. Depart from me. And thee shall go away into everlasting fire, but the righteous, into eternal life. And my friends, the only difference between the sheep and the goats, according to the Scripture, is what they did, and didn't, DO!
-Keith Green, quoting the Bible with some hardcore commentary

Keith Green said it best! There can be no compromise!!
-Pastor Kevin Gerald, jumping up onto a pew, preaching (1983)

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-Mahatma Gandhi

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
-Martin Luther (died in 1546)

Why should I have to live to a different standard than you? We are all going to be at the same judgment. There's no judgment for pastors and and judgment for people that want to live their own way, conformed to the world . . . Like the transformed go to the transformed judgment and the conformed go to the conformed judgment. No, the conformed go to hell, oh wait, that's too harsh, I'm sorry.
-Pastor Tracey Armstrong (straight killing it one Sunday morning last month)

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
-Martin Luther

The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of the organized church is only the inevitable consequence of our policy of making grace available to all at too low a cost. We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation without condition. Our humanitarian sentiment made us give that which was holy to the scornful and unbelieving... But the call to follow Jesus in the narrow way was hardly ever heard.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, on the subject of cheap (modern) grace.


Have you ever heard or seen of how God works in other countries? Third World countries? The difference is the raw hunger for God! Christianity is most prevalent in America. Yet it is watered down more here than anywhere else on the planet. Ever wonder why? We need people of God to have convictions like most of the quotes above. They are the type that will be the vessels that God will use to restore what is all but lost. And the rest of the "Christians" that we see now? Well, they'll need to be transformed, because the kind of people that I'm talking about are the same kind of people that will follow 1 Corinthians 5.

9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person. (NKJV)

Take a look at how comfortable and friendly The Message Bible states this stuff:

9-13I wrote you in my earlier letter that you shouldn't make yourselves at home among the sexually promiscuous. I didn't mean that you should have nothing at all to do with outsiders of that sort. Or with crooks, whether blue or white-collar. Or with spiritual phonies, for that matter. You'd have to leave the world entirely to do that! But I am saying that you shouldn't act as if everything is just fine when a friend who claims to be a Christian is promiscuous or crooked, is flip with God or rude to friends, gets drunk or becomes greedy and predatory. You can't just go along with this, treating it as acceptable behavior. I'm not responsible for what the outsiders do, but don't we have some responsibility for those within our community of believers? God decides on the outsiders, but we need to decide when our brothers and sisters are out of line and, if necessary, clean house.

While it's true that with the tolerant Message Bible version you'll gather more people to church, and get a bigger offering, there is some really false doctrine being suggested. Inconvenient realities are being smoothed over for the sake of comfort and not being offensive. And this becomes part of the root, the established base, for people's faith. Is not something terribly wrong with that? (Editorial note: I started this as just some inspirational quotes, I guess it turned into something more)

Seek and Find

Passionately seek God. Chase Him down with all the tenacity of someone who NEEDS to catch God in order to live, because that's how it really is. Go after His plans for you like a pit-bull on crack. Run toward your God-given dreams without knowing how they will work out. Think of every inspirational movie scene you've ever seen where the protagonist does right for the sake of right, at any cost. Be reminded of the testimonies of people who were hopelessly dead, and came alive in Christ.

When He is all that matters, nothing else means anything! Embrace instruction, wisdom, and every good thing. Cling to truth, feed on Scripture. Live in a continual moment of praises to The King. Aggressively proclaim the truths that The Bible promises. Shout of victories not yet seen. Face the unknown like someone who has zero concern of the outcome, because he knows it's a fixed fight. Put on LOUD praise music alone and dance in God's presence. Pray hard! Pray often. Despise whatever comes between you and your growth with God. Don't make exceptions for your flesh. Kill it by feeding your spirit with every good thing of God.

Go to sleep dwelling on God, awaken praising Him! Scream to the heavens in amazement and wonder. Get revelation! Revelation that will change how you produce fruits. Revelation that will change how other people think, act, and live. If you are living like this, then you already know where the energy comes from, and why. You already know that man can never get tired when he lives out of the Spirit of God and not out of himself. You already know that God loves to inspire, loves to charge and energize revelation in people for the purpose of influence. If this isn't you right now, start with ANY of the short sentences above. Grab God's hand and fly, because nothing He will do can be done from any lower position.

(Ed. note - If this seems spastic it's because I'm in the middle of something spiritually altering right now, I'll be able to fill you in on that in just a couple of weeks.) Matthew 12:35