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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.

Bob Goff

Simply put: love does.
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Love Put Simple
Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Engaged Most People Things
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.
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Compare Important Jesus
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Emotion Find Love Trust
God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
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
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
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Abandon Brave Darkness Love
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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Bible Instead Made Some Things
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Criticism Kind Wish
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Feels Humble Needs
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Answers Asking People
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
That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Assuming Express Way
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Heart Hearts Information Our
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
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.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way
You 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.
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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part

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