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

Church is not meant to be fun. It’s meant to be formative.
– Matt Chandler

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  2. Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church. – Kenneth S Kantzer
  3. When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission. – Matt Chandler
  4. The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine – Matt Chandler
  5. That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun. – Rick Riordan
  6. Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don’t you think? I mean if you enjoy it. – Peter Heller
  7. The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up! – Billy Graham
  8. The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church. – Eric Samuel Timm
  9. Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
  10. They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities. – Thomm Quackenbush
  11. The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength, – Sharon Salzberg
  12. These were formative years for me, and many of these experiences have had a profound effect on my life. – Tilly Dunn
  13. In the formative present, you are becoming who you will be in the future. – Sarah Lynn Phillips
  14. There are few things more ungodly than fake joy when you should be mourning. – Matt Chandler
  15. Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in. – Matt Chandler
  16. Whenever relationships can’t be restored, it’s because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God. – Matt Chandler
  17. 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. – Matt Chandler
  18. Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis. – Matt Chandler
  19. You are being discipled by something. – Matt Chandler
  20. Sin is the native language in every ZIP code. – Matt Chandler
  21. Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens. – Matt Chandler
  22. Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back? – Matt Chandler
  23. As we gaze on Christ, the mind is informed, and the heart is inflamed, and the body begins to line up. – Matt Chandler
  24. Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday. – Matt Chandler
  25. We become what we behold. – Matt Chandler
  26. Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God. – Matt Chandler
  27. This wasn’t a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God. – Matt Chandler
  28. God doesn’t NEED raw material. He MAKES material. – Matt Chandler
  29. Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss. – Matt Chandler
  30. If you know EVERYONE, you don’t know ANYONE. – Matt Chandler
  31. Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado – Matt Chandler
  32. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life. – Matt Chandler
  33. It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed. – Matt Chandler
  34. Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion. – Matt Chandler
  35. I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome. – Matt Chandler
  36. My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there. – Matt Chandler
  37. Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God. – Matt Chandler
  38. It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted. – Matt Chandler
  39. The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively – Matt Chandler
  40. One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in. – Matt Chandler

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