10 Quotes from Revitalize by Andrew Davis
I recently finished reading and reviewing Revitalize: Biblical Keys to Helping Your Church Come Alive Again by Andrew M. Davis. Andy kept my pen busy with marking helping quotes and other such things. Here are my favorite 10 Quotes from Revitalize (in order of appearance in the book).
Even if you do not have the book, I hope you will ponder each quote and consider its application for your life.
10 Quotes
No attribute of God is more vital for sinners to embrace than his holiness.
Andrew Davis, p. 58
All church revitalization must be done with a sense of the perfect hatred of almighty God toward sin.
Andrew Davis, p. 61
The purpose of the gospel is to bring God glory by making sinners holy.
Andrew Davis, p. 63
It is precisely because a church has drifted from holiness that it needs to be revitalized.
Andrew Davis, p. 66
True holiness flows from encounters with the holy God by his Spirit and through his Word, and they are characterized by both terror and pleasure.
Andrew Davis, p. 67
What we may underestimate is how repugnant self-reliance is to God, how pervasive it is in us, how difficult it is to detect, and how stubborn it is to drive out.
Andrew Davis, p. 71
Prayer is the furnace, the coal bed by which our hearts are heated up from their black coldness toward the things of God to desire what we didn't care about before.
Andrew Davis, p. 99
Spiritual vision is faith in the truths revealed in Scripture applied in specific settings.
Andrew Davis, p. 105
Vision for the future comes in two categories: first, those things that most certainly will happen, because they are promised by God; second, those things that may happen, because they are consistent with God's revealed will but are not guaranteed. Emphasize the first to bring about the second.
Andrew Davis, p. 113
Biblical knowledge feeds faith, faith transforms character, and out of a transformed character, we walk in newness of life.
Andrew Davis, p.203