Bishop Vaughn McLaughlin is a minister of the Word of God based in Jacksonville, Florida. He leads the The Potters House ministry that’s community centered to touch people’s lives.
Like many young people he grew up without his father who abandoned their family. As a result he got involved in drugs that took him down the wrong road. God arrested him nonetheless and gave his life to him.
He later challenged him to make peace with his father and difficult upbringing. That one bold move set him completely free and he encourages others with similar issues to do the same.
Check out 48 of his best life lessons:
- “If you don’t need God, God don’t need you.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “Don’t let your issues keep you from serving God. They don’t keep you from getting up and going to work.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “God doesn’t call bishops, He calls sinners. He lets man make the sinners He called into bishops.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “We can’t preach to who we want to. The people that need to hear a word from God are the people that NEED to hear a word from God.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “He didn’t come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. Sinners and rejects get ready. God’s getting ready to pour his Spirit out on ALL flesh.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “I love God more right now than I ever have in my life.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “When you are wrong in any essential doctrine taught in the word of God it will affect the way you interpret the entire text.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
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“Life is so uncertain, so short and so precious. Live it to the utmost but be prepared to die.”
- “I am now persuaded that folk are missing out on some things simply because they do not ask for it. James 4:2.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “If God don’t keep you, you won’t be kept.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “There is a lion tracking you but there is a lamb protecting you.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “God’s plan is to multiply and add; not subtract and divide.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “The Word of God is the manufacturer’s instruction manual for how we ought to operate and also how to fix us when we are broken.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “Wouldn’t it be great if the saints would stop gossiping about people who sin differently than they do?” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “Grace without truth is meaningless but truth without grace is just mean! (Jesus was full of grace and truth).” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “When you say yes to God you say no to self.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “WHAT we preach is so much more important than HOW we preach. HOW we live is so much more important than WHERE we live. WHY we give is so much more important than HOW MUCH we give.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “Marriage doesn’t have to be perfect but it does have to be persistent. It is a covenant that should only be broken by death. (And that’s not until one of you kill the other).” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
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“If a man will not honor his natural father, a spiritual father does not stand a chance.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “We’ve got to move from [Lord] ‘help me’ to ‘work through me.’” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “Don’t pray for something that you really need and not expect a fight.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “I would rather listen to a good Bible based, Holy Ghost filled sermon any day over watching any movie.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “The preaching of the cross in spirit and power is what will change lives. When preaching is art only it doesn’t change lives it makes people like me change the channel.” ~ Vaughn McLaughlin
- “There are prophets and then there are false prophets. Please learn the difference. It can save your life.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “If you’ve got a problem with someone, whatever it is. Get it right with them before it’s too late.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “When you learn how to manage your own money, you won’t be tempted to rob God of His.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
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“You can’t use God to become successful. You have to obey God to become successful.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Keep your eye on the storm but keep your eyes on God.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “One of the hardest things in life is to grieve the loss of a loved one that’s still alive.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Pure worship of God doesn’t draw crowds; it draws God.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Think about all of the people that God has used to bless you/help you and then tell the Lord thank you.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Living for God is not as hard as some folk make it out to be. (But sho’ ain’t as easy as some folk make it out to be).” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Please don’t let your success be an anesthesia that keeps you from being convicted of sin.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “The devil is not after your money, your house, your car or your job. You don’t even want them!! (He’s after your faith).” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “You don’t have to believe in hell to not go to hell. You have to believe in Jesus.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
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“I’d rather preach unpleasant truth than preach pleasant error.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “God ain’t nobody to play with. Trust me, I ain’t playing. Don’t do it. Don’t play with God!” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “You won’t get converted until you first get convicted.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Unrepented of dysfunction shall follow you all the days of your life.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “I can only let you down if you think that I’m the one holding you up. God’s got you, not me.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “A God called Preacher’s voice will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “God is great and greatly to be praised. Period!” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “The devil is so afraid that the people of God will one day realize that he’s defeated already!” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “When God’s got something He wants you to do, you can’t tell Him that you’ve got your ministry.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Don’t pray about something that you ain’t willing to wait for.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “You are not your gift; your gift just needs a platform. You need character!” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “Betrayal can only occur after you’ve trusted someone with something that has been entrusted to you.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
- “People come into your life for a season, a reason or sometimes treason.” ~ Vaughn_McLaughlin
