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" 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
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" When I heard Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' I reflected on the fact that much of the success of that movement was driven by the unity of the church. "
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" America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there's no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country. "
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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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" 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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" Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison. "
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" We need a right view of the cross. It is both a historical event that can take us to Heaven and a current event that can bring Heaven to bear on Earth. "
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Right
" We should love people, care about people regardless of where they come from. "
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" I could have ended up a casualty of a broken family, like so many of the kids around me in inner city Baltimore. But my life was forever changed the year I turned 10. That was the year my dad turned to Jesus. "
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Me
Family
City
" I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome. "
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Father
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" The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future. "
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Families
" And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization. "
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Look
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" When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation. "
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Reconciliation
Standards
You
" I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic. "
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Personal
Racism
Levels
" 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. "
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Faith
Good
Separation
" Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control. "
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Struggle
World
Living
" Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook. "
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Our
Got
Great
" When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline. "
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Discipline
You
Poverty
" Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right. "
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Separation
God
" I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. "
Tony Evans
Always
Justice
Will
" Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something. "
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Culture
You
Nature
" Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people. "
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Name
Place
Technology
" Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you. "
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Any
Man
Submit
" The problem is that God is being dismissed from the culture, and that vacuum is allowing, or is the basis for, the deterioration of society. That is because Christians have not kept Him in the center of the culture. "
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Culture
God
" When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering. "
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Had
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" We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history. "
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Move
System
" The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth. "
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Race
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Issue
" As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate. "
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Evil
You
Will
" 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. "
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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. "
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Church
Never
Even