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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

Bob Goff

He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Ask Cause Define Eyes Proud Thing
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
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
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
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Cynicism Joy Posing
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Grace Track Writing
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
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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Greatest Information Love People
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Broken God Religious Work
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Believer Everybody Jobs
Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
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 made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Felt Knows Made
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Eye Jesus Staring
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
We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Christ Forget Honor
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Asking Heart Opinion
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
When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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Giving Life Rest School
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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Jesus Mean People
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Teacher Teaching Thinking

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