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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.

Bob Goff

If 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 GOFF

Bigs Next Signals Steps
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace Ideas Thinking
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Chalk Grace Mean
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Moving Rivers Streams
Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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Simple Sound Terrible
I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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Boundaries Giving Trying
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Answer Loving People School Sunday
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More

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