Quotes of the Past Year

These were collected over the past year from my church's youth pastor, Brent McKinney, who has a knack for summarizing spiritual truths in catchy, bite-sized sentences. Here are a few I ran across today while clearing out some old papers on my desk.

"We need to follow the Christ who IS rather than the Christ we want." Said in response to Ephesians 4:20-24, which says: "You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."

"You've got to talk about the darkness before you can talk about the light." Said in response to 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, which says, "And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ."

Brent McKinney, quote machine