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" You may have an older audience in front of you holding the Bible and a younger audience holding an iPhone. You don't want to lose either audience. "
Tony Evans
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" There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him. "
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Question
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" Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected. "
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Love
Compassion
Run
" 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. "
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Expression
God
Him
" 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. "
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Blame
Darkness
Light
" 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. "
Tony Evans
America
Constitution
Influence
" 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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Unity
King
Church
" Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society. "
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Law
Justice
Society
" 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. "
Tony Evans
Society
Culture
God
" 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. "
Tony Evans
History
Live
Power
" 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
" In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person. "
Tony Evans
Character
Purpose
Person
" Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare. "
Tony Evans
Just
Family
Woman
" 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. "
Tony Evans
Mother
Father
Conflict
" When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation. "
Tony Evans
Reconciliation
Standards
You
" 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. "
Tony Evans
Me
Family
City
" We should love people, care about people regardless of where they come from. "
Tony Evans
Should
Care
Come
" Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him. "
Tony Evans
God
Prayer
Audience
" The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused. "
Tony Evans
People
Goal
Community
" Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other. "
Tony Evans
Problem
Want
People
" If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven't taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error. "
Tony Evans
Enough
Wrong
Bible
" Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history. "
Tony Evans
God
People
History
" 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
" I've talked to men who feel like they're overly sexual and, therefore, are attracted to any female who walks down the street. I will not excuse his activity with every female just because he feels driven in that direction. "
Tony Evans
Will
Men
Street
" Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church. "
Tony Evans
Generation
People
Leadership
" Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite. "
Tony Evans
Heaven
Time
Prayer
" God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear. "
Tony Evans
Man
Consequences
God
" 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
" If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference. "
Tony Evans
Family
God
Point
" When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer. "
Tony Evans
Prayer
Work
Day
" The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil. "
Tony Evans
Inclusion
Evil
Exclusion