Instead of our normal article this week I’m taking the opportunity today and at the end of the week to share some of my favorite quotes from Polishing the Pulpit with you. A lot of these are quotes (or paraphrases) I’ve collected and tweeted this week (you can following me by clicking the tab to the right of this post) or that have been tweeted by other attendees (search for #PTP2013).
I hope these offer encouragement to you and maybe even a little enticement to make plans next year to be here yourself!
- Preachers, when preparing your lesson, “If your sermon doesn’t bleed red with scripture, you need to start all over” – Dan Winkler.
- “I don’t need an alarm clock on Sunday mornings…that’s the Lord’s Day” – Sam Jones.
- “If you’re brother’s wrong, do you tell them what’s right so they can be right or so you can prove that you’re right?” – Dan Winkler.
- “We will not win the world by telling them what’s wrong with the church…but by telling them what’s right with Jesus” – Dan Winkler.
- “We don’t need to be homophobic, we need to be Theophobic – we need to fear God (Ecc. 12:13) – Jerry Martin.
- “The legal system is facing the same discussion as the church…do you respect the text” – Matt Vega.
- “He who marries the spirit of the age will soon become a widower” – Phil Sanders.
- “If we’ll ever buy in to the power of the gospel we’ll do amazing things” – Richard Sutton.
- “Christians live in a sea of lost humanity with mankind drowning in their sins – what are we doing?” – Richard Sutton.
- “Marriage is based on permanence and promise. Cohabitation is based on conditionality” – Todd Clippard.
- “With God love moves from being a noun to being a verb” – Richard Sutton.
- “Worship is designed to focus on God…’great preacher,’ ‘ great song leader’ – wrong focus!” – Dan Winkler.
- “You can’t bring them to Christ with your hands around their throat” – Todd Clippard.
- “It’s not a matter of whether God loves us. It’s a matter of whether we love God” – Eric Owens.
- “Man didn’t define marriage. God did and it is holy” – David Shannon.
- “Man has already taken Genesis 1 out of the Bible, now they’re working on taking Genesis 2 (vs. 18ff) out” – David Shannon.
- “You get no points for clean Bibles on the Judgment” – Rob Whitacre.
- “Every so often I need to get out of my office and go evangelize the world” – B.J. Clarke.
- “Some of God’s most effective servants are men whose names you’ll never hear” – B.J. Clarke.
- “You earn the right to preach by how you live between the lessons” – Jody Apple.
- “How do you remedy envy among preachers/churches? Realize we are but light bulbs, He is the sun!! – B.J. Clarke.
- “Verses are like thesis statements that state the purpose of each epistle” – Cliff Goodwin.
- “God, not man, is the instigator and the originator of our salvation!” – Cliff Goodwin.
- “Before we were down to nothing, God was up to something (Eph. 3:9)” – Eric Owens.
- “Calling on the name of the Lord = ‘to yield to one’s authority in complete submission and trust'” – Cliff Goodwin.
- “Cadillac’s aren’t bought at a Hyundai dealership. If you want to marry a Christian, quit shopping in the devil’s store” – Todd Clippard.
- Speaking of inspiration – “You dod not have the accurate conveyance of thought without the accurate usage of words” – Cliff Goodwin.
- “The New Testament is a blood drenched document (Matthew 26:28)” – Cliff Goodwin.
- “We are raising our children intending to release them one day” – Glenn Colley.
- “At the end of her very first date your daughter should say, “I had a very nice time. Thanks, Daddy'” – Glenn Colley.
- “The Bible is a book that is constantly about revival – God will always have us back!” – Eric Owens.
- “To have a revival we must have an appreciation of redemption and of the God who provided it” – Eric Owens.
- “Elders who are about bookkeeping, light fixtures, and restrooms, they need a revival!” – Eric Owens.
- “Preachers, who forgot the reason they got in a pulpit in the first place, they need a revival!” – Eric Owens.
(These are all from Friday through Monday. At the end of the week I’ll post quotes from the Tuesday through Thursday sessions).
-Andy Brewer