Quotes of Matt Chandler from "Passion 2021"

Brian Dodd wrote a blog on December 31, 2020 from Passion 2021 giving these quotes from Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor of The Village Church. He was speaking on the "Love of God." 

1. “As a 46-year-old I want to finish you well and cheer you on.”
2. “What you’re going to need is the love of God and power of God.”
3. “You’ve got this word (love) that’s been emptied of its meaning.”
4. “Love is made visible in the sending of Jesus Christ, the Son of God to live among us.”
5. “God is love. The nature of who God is is love.”
6. “The Holy Spirit is always cheering on Jesus.”
7. “You might have an OK life outside of Jesus but you’ll never live.”
8. “Life is more than breathing and eating.”
9. “All common grace pleasures are there to point to a greater reality.”
10. “If you want to see love, look to Jesus.”
11. “You cannot rightly define love by looking at humanity alone.”
12. “All of us have been tainted by sin.”
13. “The love of Christ is an initiating love that comes towards us.”
14. “In our day and age, love and wrath can’t comingle…. When you can’t define a word, you’re left with slogans.”
15. “If you assault God’s wrath you also assault God’s love.”
16. “Because God is so loving He is wrath.”
17. “God hates sin and hates the sinner.”
18. “God is so loving that sin boils His wrath and His rage.”
19. “God hates sin and He hates sinners because they destroy the beauty of His name.”
20. “Love, despite that, initiates and moves toward us.”
21. “God is love. He has wrath.  He’s not wrath who is loving.”
22. “If you’re self-condemning that is not of God. That is demonic.”
23. “Do not tease out the wrath of God from the love of God. You will cost yourself worship.”
24. “Don’t believe the hype, the church of Jesus Christ is not in any kind of danger.”
25. “We should be actively seeking and save the lost.”
26. “The first way to live out the love of God is passionate prayer.”
27. “How are the heavens moved through the prayers of the people of God?”
28. “Boring preachers should get benched.”
29. “You won’t evangelize until you pray.”
30. “Prayer is the hard work of the saints.”
31. “If you do anything in 2021 learn to contend in prayer and you will rock the world for Jesus Christ.”
32. “God loves you friend. You only have to look at the cross and the reality of hell.”
33. “It is the love of God that confronts sin in your life.”
34. “Sin will grow up and devour you…. When it gets of age it will destroy you.”
35. “I pray we become a generation of ferocious prayer warriors.”