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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

John Ortberg

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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
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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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

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