Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson is an American pastor and author. Batterson serves as lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. NCC was recognized as one of the Most Innovative and Most Influential Churches in America by Outreach Magazine in 2008. Batterson is also the author of the books In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day and Wild Goose Chase and blogs daily at www.evotional.com. Batterson's latest book The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
The only way you can fail is if you stop praying
You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.
Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.
If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.
If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.
You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.
One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.
I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.
Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.
Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.
Faith is the willingness to look foolish.