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" Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. "
John Ortberg
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" Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body. "
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" There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. "
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" Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.' "
John Ortberg
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" Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto. "
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" As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness. "
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" Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. "
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Real
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" We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis. "
John Ortberg
Need
Minister
Crisis
" My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two. "
John Ortberg
Confidence
God
Live
" No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing. "
John Ortberg
Pain
Always
Want
" The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest. "
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Only
" There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly. "
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Sense
Language
Integrity
" Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. "
John Ortberg
Will
Spiritual
Leadership
" This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. "
John Ortberg
Human
Learning
Spiritual
" The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training. "
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Will
You
Life
" The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by. "
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Someone
Question
Up
" I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive. "
John Ortberg
I Am
Wise
Problem
" Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. "
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Cradle
Academic
Which
" When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. "
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Soul
Hurry
Desires
" Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. "
John Ortberg
Build
Power
Sin
" I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up. "
John Ortberg
Campaign
Political
I Am
" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "
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Story
Death
Christian
" You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody. "
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Somebody
" Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. "
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Understanding
Differences
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" The church is in the hope business. "
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" Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list. "
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" Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear the full image of God has had a way of sparking reform movements across the centuries. "
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Church
Slow
Women
" There are usually multiple messages that could be preached from the same text. "
John Ortberg
Messages
Same
Text
" Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. "
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Nobody
God
First
" Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. "
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" In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison. "
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