Today, Perry taught one of the best messages I’ve ever heard about reaching today’s culture. He unpacked Acts 17 and talked about how Paul communicated with those outside the faith. Here were some of the lines that caught my attention:

  • “If a Christian can only listen to Christian music, I wouldn’t listen to music because most of it is bad.”
  • “I didn’t need pants. I wanted shirts, but he kept trying to sell me pants.”
  • “We have to be willing to go to places where ‘good Christians’ aren’t willing to go.”
  • “An idol is anything we like more than Jesus.”
  • “There’s some stuff in culture that distresses me.”
  • “We can’t ignore the world we live in. Jesus did not ignore it. Don’t ignore the people Jesus died for.”
  • “Instead of fighting them, let’s try to reach them.”
  • “For far too long, the Church has gotten mad at non-Christians for being non-Christians. I don’t get mad at a duck for quacking. It’s a duck. It quacks.”
  • “I’ve never found where mankind can schedule a move of God.”
  • “We can’t engage them with our language.”
  • “We have to be willing to go to places that make us uncomfortable in order to reach people that no one else is reaching.”
  • “The heart of Jesus breaks over people that don’t know him.”
  • “We need to accept people where they are. Meet them where the are. And take them to a place where they can meet Jesus.”

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