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.
BOB GOFFJesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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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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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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.
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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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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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