For those of you who missed last night’s teaching, I thought I’d share with you a couple of sound bytes from the night.  

My thought for the night was one that’s been “stuck” with me since my college days.  

I remember sitting in class and being confronted with this particular thought, and I’ve never been able to forget it.  Anyway, here is the first sticky thought in the series, as well as a few other things I shared during my teaching:

“Our message must never change, but our methods must be ever changing”

“It’s not just important what you say.  It’s also important how you say it.” 

“Biblical truths should never be altered, should never be tweaked, should never be changed.  However, we must find more creative ways to communicate these truths to the people in our community.” 

“Our goal is to tell the people in this world about Jesus in a way in which they can understand.  This is not watering down the Gospel.  This is putting the Gospel into words they understand.” 

“Jesus took complex and complicated truths and made them very simple.”

“The reason we engage culture is not to be cool, contemporary, or cutting edge, but so that those who live in this culture can hear and understand the message of Jesus.”

“Sometimes I think that the local church gets in the way of the Gospel!”

“I’m concerned that if we’re not careful, we will love the way we do ministry and the way we do church more than we love God and more than we love seeing lives changed.”  

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