“We will have to work hard to rest.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“The Church acts as a sort of embassy for the government of the King. It is an outpost of the Kingdom of God surrounded by the kingdom of darkness. Just as an embassy is meant to showcase the life of a nation to the surrounding people, so the Church is meant to manifest the life of the Kingdom of God to the people around it.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“Think of (the Kingdom) like the sun. As it peeks through on a cloudy day, we do not say the sun has grown. We say, ‘The sun has broken through.’ Our view of the sun has changed, or obstacles to the sun have been removed, but we have not changed the sun.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can’t do everything.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“Effective love is rarely efficient.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“My fear is that of all the choices people face today, the one they rarely consider is, “How can I serve most effectively and fruitfully in the local church?” I wonder if the abundance of opportunities to explore today is doing less to help make well-rounded disciples of Christ and more to help Christians avoid long term responsibility and have less long-term impact.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures’ authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.”
— Kevin DeYoung
“The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.”
— Kevin DeYoung