Quotes by David Mathis
David Mathis (b. 1980) — Pastor, Theologe und Autor, leitender Redakteur von Desiring God · Evangelikal / Reformatorisch-baptistisch · USA
David Mathis (* 1980) ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor, Buchautor und leitender Redakteur des Dienstes Desiring God im Großraum Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Theologisch im reformatorischen Baptismus verwurzelt, vermittelt er geistliche Übungen wie Schriftmeditation und Gebet nicht als gesetzliche Pflichten, sondern als alltagstaugliche Zugänge zu Gottes Gnade. Bibellesern bietet er praktische theologische und seelsorgerliche Impulse zur Vertiefung der persönlichen Andachtspraxis.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Witness & Mission, Grace & Redemption, Church & Congregation, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Service & Love of Neighbour, Love, Discipleship, Relationships & Family
Quotes by David Mathis
It is profoundly loving for Jesus to exalt Himself. He cannot love the nations without putting Himself on display because it is He alone who truly satisfies the human soul. This makes God’s heart for God the deepest foundation from missions.
David Mathis
The church that seeks to give to God and receive from others will suffocate faith and smother love. But if Jesus’ gospel takes root, we will gladly come to God to feast and drink. Then with our hands full and our thirst being quenched, we will most gladly do good to others, especially the church – those who are of the household of faith (2 Cor. 12:15; Gal. 6:10).
David Mathis
Jesus spent over three years with His twelve disciples. He called them to be discipled at the outset of His ministry (Matt. 4:19), and He gave them the lion’s share of His life until His departure in Matthew 28. He invested His life in His men. It is amazing to track in the Gospels how much Jesus gave of Himself to His disciples. The crowds pursued Him, but He pursued His disciples. He was willing to bless the masses, but He invested in the few.
David Mathis
Missions is the church’s sending out of missionaries (the sent ones) to pioneer the church among peoples who otherwise have no access of the gospel.
David Mathis
So many of us think about it the other way around. We think of church in terms of our serving God and receiving from others. But this is backwards. Sacrificial service in the church doesn’t start with serving. It starts with being served by God. Then as we are satisfied in Him and who He’s revealed Himself to be in His crucified Son, we gladly overflow in service of others.
David Mathis
Missions is about the worship of Jesus. The goal of missions is the global worship of Jesus by His redeemed people from every tribe, tongue, and nation. The outcome of missions is all peoples delighting to praise Jesus. And the motivation for missions is the enjoyment that His people have in Him. Missions aims at, brings about, and is fueled by the worship of Jesus.
David Mathis
Suffering is not only the consequence of completing the commission, but it is God’s appointed means by which He will show the superior worth of His Son to all the peoples. Just as it was “fitting that He…should make the founder of [our] salvation perfect through suffering” (Heb. 2:10), so it is fitting that God save a people from all the peoples from eternal suffering through the redemptive suffering of Jesus displayed in the temporal sufferings of His missionaries.
David Mathis
Sources: crossway.org, desiringgod.org, bcsmn.edu
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