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 GOFFBeing 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 GOFFNo book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
BOB GOFFIt will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
BOB GOFFPeople who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFFStand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
BOB GOFFI think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
BOB GOFFGod wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
BOB GOFFThat’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
BOB GOFFGod 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.
BOB GOFF…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.
BOB GOFFFix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
BOB GOFFIt 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.
BOB GOFFI used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
BOB GOFFSee people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
BOB GOFFWhat I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
BOB GOFFThe most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
BOB GOFF