"It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her."
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"The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus."
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"Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are! This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?"
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"People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness."
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"If God is not at the center of your life, something else is."
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"Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire."
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"Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day."
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"The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life."
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"What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow."
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"Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king."
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"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."
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"In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family."
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"Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word."
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"To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking."
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"You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope."
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"A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west."
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"Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey."
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"Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done."
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"Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity."
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"Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you."
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