Jerry Bridges Quotes

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

If we are busy in a hundred good things - even great things, gospel things, glorious things - but don't sit at the feet of Jesus, we are busy in the wrong ways.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I see everything I do as an extension of the ministry. It's all about service.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you're going do in your whole life. You're not going to find anything tougher.

I would say I am a mediocre Christian.

I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.