3 Quotes by Fred Lybrand

We can attempt to change people and countries through external moral, social, intellectual pressures; but this is not the way of God. God’s way is to change the nation through changing her heart. The heart of a nation changes through the hearts of her citizens. It is solely the power of the gospel of the grace of God that brings this change. While legislation can only restrain, the message of Christ fully renews.

We will discuss the idea of social activism as opposed to fulfilling the Great Commission. J. Vernon McGee is noted for saying, “We don’t want to make the world a better place to go to hell in. God has called us to go fishing, not clean up the pond.

The world will hate us. That’s okay. We’ve been prayed for to be kept. Do you think God will honor Christ’s prayer? If He’s going to listen to any prayer, surely He’ll listen to His own Son’s. He prayed to keep us.