6 Quotes by Mark Labberton

For the evangelical witness in the United States to flourish, it doesn't need better branding, but genuine revival.

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

When worship is our response to the One who alone is worthy of it-Jesus Christ-then our lives are on their way to being turned inside out.

Worship turns out to be the dangerous act of waking up to God and to the purposes of God in the world, and then living lives that actually show it.

When God’s people fail to live our call, the church buries the gospel.

Amid an array of moral convictions, the indistinguishable character of the church undermines its claims of a superior – indeed ontologically true – moral vision. On the broad public level, the spectacular failures of the church’s leaders discredit its claims of “goodness.” When the Christian next door demonstrates the same self-interested, consumer life as anyone else, goodness seems like a faint sentimentality.