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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

Bob Goff

Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
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
I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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College School Thinking
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
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
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
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Heaven Night Three
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Information Needs Passion
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
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
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Jesus Thinking Want
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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People Shapes Shelves
They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things

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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