Latest Matt Chandler Quotes from Interviews

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• I have always deeply desired to be an honest man who said it when I struggled, stumbled and worried. I longed to be a man with real friends - friends who knew me at my worst and loved me.

  Matt Chandler

  Real, Men, Honest

  Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org

• I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org

• Some people are so moral they feel like they have no need for Jesus. True worshippers know they are in deep need of Jesus Christ and are transformed morally by "beholding Jesus" and seeing their lives transformed by the Spirit's power from the inside out rather than conformed to a pattern of religion from the outside in.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, People, Needs

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

• The great mercy of God was that while I was purposefully preparing God's people, He was purposefully preparing me.

  Matt Chandler

  Mercy Of God, People, Mercy

  Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org

• The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.

  Matt Chandler

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

• I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.

  Matt Chandler

  War, Fighting, Ideas

  Source: skyejethani.com

• Many of the things that stifle growth are morally neutral. They're not bad things. Facebook is not bad. Television and movies are not bad. I enjoy TV, but it doesn't take long for me to begin to find humorous on TV what the Lord finds heartbreaking.

  Matt Chandler

  Humorous, Long, Growth

  Source: skyejethani.com

• What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is unbiblical and wicked. It's probably been true of every generation, but I can see it most clearly in the younger crowd. There seems to be so little war when it comes to sin.

  Matt Chandler

  War, Circles, Mad

  Source: skyejethani.com

• There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

  Matt Chandler

  Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

  Source: skyejethani.com

• I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Believe, Sovereign

  Source: skyejethani.com

• I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

  Matt Chandler

  Cancer, Believe, Ends

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

• I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

  Matt Chandler

  People, Needs, Goodness

  Source: verticallivingministries.com