Marva Dawn famous quotes

04-17-2025

If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.
-- Marva Dawn

#Passion #Community #Worship
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.
-- Marva Dawn

#Motivation #Healing #Pride
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our church to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. (Worship) immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmosâ€¦provides opportunities for us to enjoy Godâ€™s presence in corporate ways that takes us out of time and into the eternal purposes of Godâ€™s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changedâ€”but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.
-- Marva Dawn

#Kings #Successful #Opportunity
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to help them acknowledge it and to realize it by joining in worship. We thereby carry to others the answer to their inmost longing, a yearning for union with the Trinity, a thirst to respond with adoration to the God who made them.
-- Marva Dawn

#Joining #Looks #Answers
Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.
-- Marva Dawn

#Worship #Clarity #Goodness
Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dustyâ€”without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.
-- Marva Dawn

#Skeletons #Healthy #Dry
Every other religion gives you directions on how to find God, but Jesus takes you to Him.
-- Marva Dawn

#Jesus #Giving
The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.
-- Marva Dawn

#Christian #Doe #Christian Life
In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily fidelity to which we are called, beside the faithfulness of being attentive to God. We can be well simply by our diligence in being who we are at the moment.
-- Marva Dawn

#Discipline #Care #Who We Are
If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.
-- Marva Dawn

#Christian #Would Be #Culture
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.
-- Marva Dawn

#Dream #Self #Play
Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.
-- Marva Dawn

#Peace #Military #War

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