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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

John Ortberg

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

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