Mark Dever Quotes

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• Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

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  Long, Realizing, Fine

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• God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

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  People, Instruments, Conform

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• Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

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  God, Christian, Pride

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• A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

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  Way, Understood, Sinner

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• Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.

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  Evangelism, Imposing

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

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  Men, Soul, Gimmicks

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• T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people - the new covenant, blood-bought people of God. That's why Paul said, 'Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her' (Eph. 5:25). He didn't give himself up for a place, but for a people.

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  Spiritual, Blood, People

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• We are called to love others. We share the gospel because we love people. And we don't share the gospel because we don't love people. Instead, we wrongly fear them. We don't want to cause awkwardness. We want their respect, and after all, we figure, if we try to share the gospel with them, we'll look foolish! And so we are quiet. We protect our pride at the cost of their souls. In the name of not wanting to look weird, we are content to be complicit in their being lost.

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  Pride, Names, People

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• Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

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  Christian, Together, Church

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.11, B&H Publishing Group

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• When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

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  Prayer, Important, Library

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• Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

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  Powerful, Triumph, Example

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2015

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• Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

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  Steps, Doctrine, Hell

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• As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

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  Numbers, Long, Growth

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.12, B&H Publishing Group

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• If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you.

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  Needs, Praying, Guidance

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

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  Jobs, Echoes, Church

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• We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.

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  Errors, People, Needs

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• If you are not offending people, then you are not an evangelist.

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  Offending, People, Ifs

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

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  Failing, Evangelism, Ifs

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• We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind.

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  Mind, World, Next

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2015

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• A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.

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  Perfect, Healthy, Church

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• The church is the gospel made visible.

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  Church, Made, Visible

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• Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

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  Unity, Division, Should

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.96, B&H Publishing Group

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• The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

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  Church, Arise

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

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  Christian, Heart, Grace

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