Jeff Gray

One of the greatest lies I have believed during my Christian life was this: "When things slow down, I'll have more time for God's mission." The problem is that things never slow down. For years, I tried to work the Kingdom of God around my life instead of working my life around the Kingdom of God. I loved Jesus and wanted to make disciples, but disciple-making often became something I tried to squeeze into the margins of an already crowded schedule. I was busy with work, projects, hobbies,...

We live in a time when biblical knowledge is everywhere. With a few clicks, we can listen to sermons, watch Bible teaching videos, read theology articles, follow Christian podcasts, and download devotionals instantly. Many believers today have access to more biblical information in one week than some Christians throughout history had access to in a lifetime. Yet with all this knowledge available, one difficult question remains: Are we actually obeying what we already know? Jesus never...

The Ephesus church looked strong on the outside. Ephesians 2 says they were once dead in sin, now alive in Christ. They were far from God, now brought near by the blood of Jesus. From the outside, this church was doing well. They had solid teaching. People were serving. False teachers identified and confronted. They endured hardship. If you judged them by what you could see, you would say, “That’s a healthy church.” And in many ways, it was. We tend to focus on what is visible or what is...