Jeff Purswell, “Hope in God’s Sovereign Goodness”

Church planting is our heritage. Church planting is our calling. Church planting makes you feel weak. Church planting showcases the power and glory of God. Church planting proclaims the gospel.

If you attempt to add your works in whatever form to [God’s] grace, you no longer have grace. Legalism means that we consider or ultimately conclude that the cross of Christ is insufficient for our salvation.

Gender makes no difference in how much God loves you. Gender does make a difference in how you love God.

God after all is God, and he is not man. He is the Creator of the ends of the earth, and he brought it into being simply by speaking a few words. It shouldn’t surprise that we are not able to grasp the magnitude of his inner being.

God delights to work through the weak and the few. “We believe the worth of the church is measured by the worth of the Savior we treasure and by the worth of the Word we adhere to.”

Our mission as God’s people is to make much of God: “We are here to do all to the glory of God. We exist to make much of God. It’s not about us. It’s all about him.”

We have to be careful as Christians that the demands and effects of living in this material world don’t lull us into forgetting that we are spiritual people…we need to be daily filled with the Spirit of God.

The most decisive factor for a faithful future is adherence to God’s Word.