Matt Chandler

“When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.”

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

“A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.”

“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.”

“He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I'm going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn't...that's the thing: I've read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says. I'm here let's work, if I go home? That's better. I understand that.”

“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.”

“Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?”

“Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.”

“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.”

“The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.”

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

“Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?”

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

“Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.”

“You are being discipled by something.”

“Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.”

“It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.”

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

“This passage, by the way, doesn't just give us the comparative negative of hell, but it translates well into a theology of suffering. With these words of Jesus in mind, I can now know that it is better never to hold my children, it is better never to run my fingers through my wife's hair, it is better not to be able to brush my own teeth, it is better never to be able to drive a car, it is better to be paralyzed and never feel anything from the neck down, and it is better to have stage III anaplastic oligondendroglioma than to find myself outside the kingdom of God.It is better never to see the sunset or the sunrise, never see the stars in the sky, never to see my daughter in her little dress-up clothes, never to see my son throw a ball - it is better never to have seen those things than to have seen those things and yet end up outside the kingdom of God. How horrible hell must be.”

“There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning.”