15 Quotes by Wayne Jacobsen

We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven but who don't want a relationship with the living God. By trying to offer some minimal standard of conduct that will allow them to qualify for salvation while continuing to to pursue their own agendas, we distort the gospel and destroy its power, and we concoct legalistic games to give them a false sense of security.

There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.

The purpose of grace is to grant us access into his presence every day. Grace qualifies us for the relationship we could never earn on our merits.

Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that’s because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.

The key to living a productive Christian life is not waking up every day trying to be loved by God, but waking up in the awareness that you are already his beloved.

We make a fatal mistake when we try to force Scripture to offer redemption to those who want to go to heaven but who don’t want a relationship with the living God. By trying to offer some minimal standard of conduct that will allow them to qualify for salvation while continuing to to pursue their own agendas, we distort the gospel and destroy its power, and we concoct legalistic games to give them a false sense of security.