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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace

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