James MacDonald Quotes

To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated – abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

If all you are doing is spending time with the struggling members of your church and you are not building proactively into your church's culture, and you are being shortsighted and limiting the effectiveness of your ministry.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.