God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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