Sound Bites

Neil Girrard

The theologian who explains God in such a way that He is no longer God is no longer a theologian - he has succeeded only in becoming his own god.
The Bible scholar does well to remember that he is merely a guest in - and not the Master of - the house.
If you're getting the vast majority of your spiritual understanding from a man, there's something very, very wrong with your relationship with God.
If your rendition of the gospel makes you popular among men, there is something wrong with either your rendition or your relationship with God or both. If absolutely no one is hearing what you believe God is telling you, there is a very good chance there is something very, very wrong with your relationship with God.
God's will is not always knowable in advance. Sometimes a step or two must precede knowledge - that is spiritual maturity.
Abundant life cannot be institutionalized and remain either abundant or life.
Your obedience is the only thing in the universe God does not already possess. Doing what you think is right and good is not obedience.
The man who lives in sin is not qualified to teach you about God, no matter what title is attached to his name nor how much or how little he gets paid to do so.
The one who thinks his vision for social or religious improvements gives him the right to enforce his vision on others does not yet know what spirit he is really of.
Lording over others has two parts: lording and over. Direct authoritarianism is as evil as exalted elitism.
When intellectual, successful, likeable, charismatic and "beautiful" people control the realms of religious and spiritual thought, it is no longer the kingdom of Christ and God.
The living are not often found in the place of the dead. Those who are there have little life worth sharing with others and one is more likely to harm oneself bumping into the monuments to people who lived and died before one got there.

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