What do you think is the fundamental attitude of a man or woman of God?
Evangelism has never been so exciting. It is one thing to be excited about seeing fruit in evangelism. It is another to see how fruit has come about through God’s intervention.
These truths indicate that God has always been working far ahead of the one who seeks to evangelize someone or some group. Such might be like Abraham trying to evangelize Melchizedek, not realizing that the latter had a prior revelation from God!
God was saying to me, “Doug, can you trust me as Sovereign Love? Even without knowing the answers and without having everything figured out? Can you just trust me as God who reigns over every circumstance in your life and who is Love?”
...Someone can teach you a method and all the reasons to do something, but if it’s not living and vital in their life, it doesn’t get through. What are we passing on to others? Is it methods? Is it knowledge? Or is it life?
"If we get our eyes on ourselves, this series of messages will be of little use, but if we get our eyes on God, and we become more like Him, then this series can make a permanent difference in each one of our lives... The whole emphasis is on godliness, on Christ, on God-likeness."