18 Quotes by Tim Chester

Grace is so simple to understand and yet so hard to grasp.

American Christians spend more on dieting than on world missions.5 We spend more curing our overconsumption than we do feeding the physically and spiritually hungry of the world.

That’s the scandal of grace. It means that if you’ve been working hard to be right with God, then you’ve been wasting your time because God welcomes everyone – righteous and unrighteous alike.

We need to shift our focus from putting on attractional events to creating attractional communities.

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin.

The Christian community demonstrates the effectiveness of the gospel. We are the living proof that the gospel is not an empty word but a powerful word that takes men and women who are lovers of self and transforms them by grace through the Spirit into people who love God and others. We are the living proof that the death of Jesus was not just a vain expression of God’s love but an effective death that achieved the salvation of a people who now love one another sincerely from a pure.

This means if you want to receive God’s blessing, you do not need to go looking for some dramatic new experience. The place to be is your local church, where the word is proclaimed and the sacraments are administered. You simply need to read your Bible, listen to expository preaching week by week, and participate in the Lord’s Supper. This is where God’s grace to us in Christ is found.

As far as the Pharisees were concerned, if you gave a dish to the poor it became unclean, because the poor were the great unwashed who didn’t fulfill ceremonial washing. But Jesus says the dish becomes clean because it expresses love.

Look to Jesus to be enough for you, and there will never, ever come a day when he is not enough.