Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
BOB GOFFWhat I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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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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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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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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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Simply put: love does.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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