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Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Mark Dever

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Mark Dever
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 28
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the United States of America
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Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission not by our blood, but by His.
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We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.
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The church is the gospel made visible.
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Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.
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There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.
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Once we see more of our need and understand more of what Christ has done for us, he will become more precious to us. And this, in turn, will enable our obedience far more than sheer grunt effort.
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Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.
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Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but it's now certainly the case that the postmodern mindset is dominant, particularly in the media. Therefore, when we start speaking in terms of certainties, we sound scary to other people.
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Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.
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Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.
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If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you.
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The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.
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For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.
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