stolen, but so good!

Leonard Ravenhill quotes: stolen from steve bremner's blog.

"The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising."
"Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel-and just as empty!" (oh yes it can! saying it and living it are sooo different! so lets live it!)
"God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost." (yikes)
"You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it." (you know what? i think it probably applies to our lives as well...if we are on fire for God...people are going to notice...we wont have to tell them. green thoughts are not stolen from steve:P)
"Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church with prayer and meditation?" (imagine that...prayrfully preparing for church!)
"No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off." (hmm...pray or stray? why do we pretend to pray, and then try to do things on our own? then we wonder why nothing works and we lose faith...duh nicole!)
"Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death."(spirit filled in the hardest of times??imagine that! kinda goes along with "consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds..." no? so why do we feel sorry for our selves and whine and do everything BUT have joy?)
"Today’s church wants to be raptured from responsibility." (haha yeah...cuz its way easier!)


ok, so here's the thing people. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US? do we find our selves telling people we are Christians and they are like; " reallly? i never would have guessed it." or do people notice a difference in us....do they say thigns like "are you a Christian or something?" that would be so nice if people could know...well they should know. they should notice a difference in us. we are to be lights right? so why do we hide our lights under baskets? its crazy...we are being very selfish...we are hiding truth! or we bend the truth because we are affraid of offending people....even though the gospel is offencive to sinners(thats us too!). ok so what do we do? lets be our selves. our selves we know we should be! lets not trade in our values because things get hard, or because we are affraid! lets not give up prayer for video games or cocktails or anything else. lets live for God. and lets not be affraid...lets keep eachother accountable! i love you guys!