Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
BOB GOFFLike 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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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