The gospel costs nothing. We cannot buy it or earn it. It can only be received as a free gift, compliments of God’s grace. So it costs nothing, but it demands everything. And that is where most of us get stuck — spiritual no-man’s-land. We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.
— Mark Batterson (b. 1969), Pastor und Bestsellerautor
Topics: Grace & Redemption, Discipleship
Occasions: For Reflection
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson (* 1969) ist ein US-amerikanischer pfingstlich-evangelikaler Pastor und Bestsellerautor, der die National Community Church in Washington, D.C. leitet. Er steht für einen handlungsorientierten Glauben und wurde vor allem durch Bücher wie The Circle Maker bekannt, die zu kühnem Gebet und dem mutigen Verfolgen großer Ziele ermutigen. Während Bibelleser seine motivierenden Impulse schätzen, sehen theologische Kritiker in manchen seiner Gebetskonzepte außerbiblische Einflüsse und Anklänge an ein Wohlstandsevangelium.
All quotes by Mark Batterson (13)
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller