Derwin L. Gray Quotes

“Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.”

— Derwin L. Gray

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

— Derwin L. Gray

“Substance and content over style and hype any day.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.”

— Derwin L. Gray

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

— Derwin L. Gray

“It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.”

— Derwin L. Gray

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

— Derwin L. Gray

“God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.”

— Derwin L. Gray

“You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.”

— Derwin L. Gray

A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how we see ourselves determines how we live ... A destructive label leads to a destructive life. There is a soul thief, a dark enemy, who wants to nail ruinous labels to your heart so that he can steal your life. Jesus wants to give you life giving labels that release your potential for the good of the world.

— Derwin L. Gray

“I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.”

— Derwin L. Gray