Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
Author Archives: Matt Jury
The Word and the Music
Our churches … must recover the centrality of the Word in our worship. Music is a biblically require response to God’s Word, but the music God gave us was not given to build our churches upon. A church built on music — of whatever style — is a church built on shifting sands.
Mark Dever, What Is a Healthy Church?, p. 67
Ministry Is Much More Than Management
While management models from the business world may help us in becoming efficient at what we do in ministry, it’s only a whole hearted embracing of the servant model of Jesus Christ that will enable us to become effective at what we do in ministry. Efficient managers master routines, but effective leaders impact lives. ‘Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.’
Douglas R. McLachlan, Reclaiming Authentic Fundamentalism, p. 41
A Holy Mission
As the heart’s holiest mission is to love the Christ, so the tongue’s holiest mission is to proclaim the Christ.
William A. Quayle, The Pastor-Preacher, p. 55
Compared with Christ
Why We Get Little from Our Bibles
Unquestioningly, the paramount reason why we get, as a rule, so little out of God’s Word, is because of the appalling lack of self-judgment and brokenness before its Author, so prevalent on every hand.
H. A. Ironside, Notes on the Minor Prophets, pp. 273-274
Of Bruised Reeds and Smoking Flax
It is possible for God to take a second best (or a sixty-fourth best!) and make it into something very wonderful when it is accepted as being the present condition in which a man finds himself, and when he moves toward God to develop it to the fullness of its possibilities in blessing and submission to His will, there cannot fail to be a great blessing. One of the glories of God in Christ is that He is able to make music from bruised reeds, and set smoking flax on fire (Matthew 12.20).
Donald Grey Barnhouse, The Invisible War, p. 192
The True Audience of Our Worship
“…worship begins not with man as its focus, but God. Worship must be orchestrated and conducted with the vision before us of an august, awesome, holy, transcendent God who is to be pleased and, above all, glorified by our worship. Everything in our corporate worship should flow from this understanding.
R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man, p. 110
How Much Does a Church Cost?
If the church was worth [Christ’s] blood, is it not worth our labor? The privilege of serving it is established by the preciousness of the price paid for its purchase.
John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 178
Missionary Motives
God is worthy to be known and proclaimed for who He is, and that fact is an important part of the missionary motive and message.
Tom Wells, A Vision for Missions, p. 9
Life Is Worship 