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" If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue. "
Tony Evans
Because
Hands
Know
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" Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it. "
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" I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. "
Tony Evans
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" What God wants is for us to live by His rules, resulting in the receiving of His blessing and power. When we as Christians, celebrating our differences, join together as the house of God representing the kingdom of God for the glory of God, we get the response of God to our presence in history. "
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" When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men. "
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Places
Men
" Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced. "
Tony Evans
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Should
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" The cross is to be our point of reference for every area of our lives all the time. "
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Time
" Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right. "
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" When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering. "
Tony Evans
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Had
Younger
" Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others. "
Tony Evans
Expression
God
Him
" The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject. "
Tony Evans
Reality
Truth Is
Truth
" The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has. "
Tony Evans
Kingdom
Church
Unique
" Christians historically have believed wrong on issues. Take slavery: they believed wrong on that issue for generations, and it had, just, repercussions that were staggeringly negative for our culture and my community. So it is possible to be Christian and to believe wrongly and practice wrongly. "
Tony Evans
Practice
Culture
Community
" We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God. "
Tony Evans
Church
Never
Even
" When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline. "
Tony Evans
Discipline
You
Poverty
" Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation. "
Tony Evans
Love
Change
Nation
" Government is not a human institution. It is a divine institution that humans are to run on His behalf. When they create their own rules, then they become against the creator and what He intended for government to do. "
Tony Evans
Run
Government
Rules
" The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth. "
Tony Evans
Race
Choice
Issue
" It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities. "
Tony Evans
Personal
Win
Churches
" Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God. "
Tony Evans
Image
God
Black
" Getting to know God by His names is more than simply learning a new word or discovering a new title He goes by. Learning to know God by His names opens up the door to knowing His character more fully and experiencing His power more deeply. "
Tony Evans
Power
Door
Learning
" Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation's ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians. "
Tony Evans
Nation
Evil
Corruption
" Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house. "
Tony Evans
America
Election
Eyes
" Football is oneness in action. When played well, it is unity on display. Players come from different races and different backgrounds. However, when they get on the field, they harmonize their differences toward a common goal. "
Tony Evans
Unity
Football
Differences
" God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant. "
Tony Evans
Covenant
World
Those
" God has a kingdom. It's made up of citizens: some black, some white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never that the individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the flag flying over them - the flag of the cross. "
Tony Evans
Flag
Black
Flying
" Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society. "
Tony Evans
God
Church
Transformation
" You can't blame things for being dark if the light bulbs aren't working. So we're complaining about the darkness when the bulbs aren't working, and the Bible says that we are the light of the world. "
Tony Evans
Blame
Darkness
Light
" These young people need to see that there's something bigger out there than what they're looking at everyday or seeing in the news or on social media. They need men and women to come into their lives who will give them a bigger vision of the world, of life, of opportunity, of what they can become rather than what they think they are limited to you. "
Tony Evans
Social Media
Opportunity
Life
" We don't apologize for who we are. We do what we do as Christians. Our faith isn't hidden. There should never be a separation between God and good works. "
Tony Evans
Faith
Good
Separation
" Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting. "
Tony Evans
Think
Nature
Me