Steve McVey Quotes & Sayings

If you have seen your God through the lens of legalistic religion, you most likely have believed that God was warning them [Adam and Eve] that He would punsih them if they ate from the tree. Nothing could be further from the heart or intent of God. He wouldn't kill them - sin would kill them. God wasn't warning them about what He would do but about what sin would do to them. — Steve McVey

If I need to apologize for misrepresenting God's love I'd rather apologize for overstating His love than for understating it. — Steve McVey

We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are. — Steve McVey

Whenever a person holds onto personal rights, he sets himself up for the tyranny of fear when those rights are threatened. The only way to be free to experience God's will is to go thruogh life with a loose grip on everything around us. He is the only security we have life - and He is enough! — Steve McVey

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
— Steve McVey

The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith. — Steve McVey

Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all. — Steve McVey