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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.

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
Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Confused Jesus Life Love
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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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Day Every People Stuff
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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Answer Loving People School Sunday
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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Greatest Information Love People
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.
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Brave Darkness Light
Great love leaves little doubt.
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Doubt Great Littles Love
It 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.
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Broken God Religious Work
Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Action Doubt Mean
Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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Simple Sound Terrible
Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Matter Way Whimsy
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Jesus Month Realize School Zero

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