“ONE-LINER” OF THE WEEK 🎤 · Dear Young Preacher

Michael El-Takrori

12h • One-Liners

“ONE-LINER” OF THE WEEK 🎤

I’m a big fan of one-liners.

A faithful unpacking of Scripture with a right-hook one-liner is my bread & butter.

I have a growing notepad of one-liners that goes back to 2011.

There’s just something about them.

They don’t replace good content, they amplify it.

A phrase, a proverb, a sticky statement… it’s biblical.

Jesus hit the Pharisees with:

“Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

BOOM. One-liner.

The Apostle Paul hit them with:

“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

BOOM. One-liner.

Solomon with:

“One who is full loathes honey from the comb, but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.”

MIC DROP.

This one-liner/phrase came from a message I preached this weekend entitled “PEOPLE.”

The premise of the message was that in Philippians (the letter of joy), we see that Paul didn’t just have joy in Jesus. In the first 11 verses of chapter 1, he doesn’t even bring that up. The joy he highlights is his joy in the people.

His love for people was so great, he expresses this internal tension:

“I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. Convinced of this, I know that I will remain, and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith.”

What?? Are you kidding? His love is that great for the people he’s done life with, impacted, shared the gospel with? He is torn between being with Jesus and staying?

Here was the phrase I gave the church—our first ONE-LINER OF THE WEEK:

“PEOPLE”: THE REASON PEOPLE LEAVE.

“PEOPLE”: THE REASON PAUL STAYED.🤯

People are the reason many leave… but for Paul, they were the reason he stayed.

SHARE THE LOVE…COMMENT A ONE-LINER/QUOTE/ OR PHRASE!! 😄

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