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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Timothy Keller

This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Church Country Enjoy Look Love Motivation People Person Quench Remember Shoe Situation
It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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Anything Difficulty Fortifies Liberate Need Pretense Righteousness Self
The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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Due Joy Lack Life Mission
Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Christian Guilt Motivate Motivation Other Say Shoes Tend
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Church Identity Itself Justice Poetic
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Brother Exert Instinctively Jesus Limit Ourselves Race
There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Infallible Integrity Jesus Life Prayer Private Spiritual Test
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Besides Bible Building Every Identity Jesus One Problem Real Say Something
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Bad Good Jesus Lot One People Think
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Done Jesus Make Proud Religion
Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Despite Faith Feel Living Out Truth
Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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Accept Acceptable God Gospel Obey Operate Principle Religion
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Accept Accepted Bible Different Every Gospel Page Religion Show Utterly

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