Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
BOB GOFFSomething happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
BOB GOFFI learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
BOB GOFFI know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
BOB GOFFIt will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
BOB GOFFThat’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
BOB GOFFIf you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
BOB GOFFThe teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
BOB GOFFYou don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
BOB GOFFYou don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
BOB GOFFWe spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
BOB GOFFI used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
BOB GOFFCourage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
BOB GOFFInsecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
BOB GOFFThe battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
BOB GOFFFear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
BOB GOFFWhat I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
BOB GOFF