Matt Chandler

The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

What has defined our faith since the beginning is open-ended gladness.

God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.

The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.

Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?

We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze upon the wonder of Jesus Christ and have that transform our affections to the point where our love and hope are steadfastly on Christ.

Ladies, if you__e single there is nothing wrong, sinful or wicked about desiring a husband, nothing. Anyone who would say otherwise is absolutely lying to you. God wired you for it, He built you for it. Men, there is nothing wrong, wicked, or evil about wanting a wife. I don__ know when that happened, I don__, now listen I do think that you need to be content where you are today, alright, but listen I__ content with what Christ is doing in me today but I don__ want to be who I am today, I__ hoping Christ will complete what He began. It__ okay, it__ alright, who made it so complicated? it__ okay, it__ okay to want a wife, it__ okay to want a husband, those are good things, they__e really good things. It__ okay, it__ okay to want.

Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.

Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people__ experiences as an interpretive lens.

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.

The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.