Quotes about Application

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of hows; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!

It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under—do as to over—do what Scripture says.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

Wisdom gives a leader balance and helps to avoid eccentricity and extravagance. If knowledge comes by study, wisdom comes by Holy Spirit filling. Then a leader can apply knowledge correctly. "Full of wisdom" is one of the requirements for even subordinate leaders in the early church (Acts 6:3).

The proof that we believe something isn't when we agree with what someone teaches us, it's when we act on it.

holiness teaches him to inwardly condemn his sin and doing it in secret. It also teaches him to suppress sin in his family and to promote holiness in the world. He does so not by just talking about it, as a hypocrite or talkative person might do, but by practical application in faith and love to the power of the Word.

INTEGRITY—Did I do my best? EXPECTATION—Did I please my sponsor? RELEVANCE—Did I understand and relate to the audience? VALUE—Did I add value to the people? APPLICATION—Did I give people a game plan? CHANGE—Did I make a difference?

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.

to act on what you learn is all that really matters.