Jake Meador Quotes

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.

I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

While people certainly come to church to receive clear moral guidance, they also come to engage in dialogue about difficult questions, and to find something that isn’t readily available in the larger society—a place where disagreement is handled gracefully and respectfully by people of shared religious values.

Poverty was not caused by the churches; so how can the churches solve the poverty problem?

Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was intense and very evident to anyone who passed by or came in.

It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.

I grew up in the church.

I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.