True Greatness

Jesus is saying that we carry those positions of responsibility as those who believe that greatness has little relation to the position one has and more to do with the quality of life in Christ that one humbly offers. Every moment of obscure service makes the hall of fame in heaven. This means that everybody, no matter what color, what economic reality, what gender, or what position they have or will never have in this life can do something great for God.

--Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), Kindle location 562.

Obscurity and Greatness are NOT Opposites

The problem we have rises when we suggest that obscurity and greatness are opposites, that fame in our culture and greatness as God sees it are synonyms.

--Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), Kindle location 542.

Looking for the Extraordinary

Church success can damage our souls when definitions of success are removed from what God teaches us in Eden--when ordinary persons and places made in God's image and given by him are not extraordinary or exceptional enough for us.

--Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), Kindle location 462.

Holy Ground

[W]hen we preach, gather in worship, and hear the voice of God in Jesus, we lay our shoes next to those of Moses and bow down before the one who is "I AM."

--Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), Kindle location 232.

A Definition of Christian Ministry

I believe that Christian life and ministry are an apprenticeship with Jesus toward recovering our humanity and, through his Spirit, helping our neighbors do the same.

--Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), Kindle location 217.

True Significance

[B]eing remembered by [God] means we no longer fear being forgotten by the world. Living humanly within his remembrance is enough.

--Zack Eswine, Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), Kindle location 215.