"Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name."
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"If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?"
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"Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God"
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"We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life."
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"Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them."
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"Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast."
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"The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted."
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"The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission."
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"A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself."
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"We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies."
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"Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful."
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"When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself."
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"Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever."
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"A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection."
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"Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd."
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"There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives."
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"The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it."
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"The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us."
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"The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God."
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"Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are."
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