The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Anand Thakur
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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