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" A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives. "
John Ortberg
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" From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God. "
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Person
Soul
" A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people. "
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" Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love. "
John Ortberg
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" 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
" I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism. "
John Ortberg
I Am
Prone
Struck
" Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. "
John Ortberg
God
Mind
To Love
" In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings. "
John Ortberg
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I Am
Accomplish
" 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
Convince
Real
Out
" 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. "
John Ortberg
Long
Hate
Thinking
" Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. "
John Ortberg
Understanding
Differences
Grow
" Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. "
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Life
Servant
Virtue
" Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. "
John Ortberg
You
Strategy
Gold
" We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries. "
John Ortberg
Hurt
Want
Church
" The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear. "
John Ortberg
Deep
Weird
People
" The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself. "
John Ortberg
Character
Humility
Yourself
" Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel. "
John Ortberg
Experience
Run
Gratitude
" Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. "
John Ortberg
Art
Good
Death
" The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. "
John Ortberg
Idols
Even
Always
" 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. "
John Ortberg
Authority
Real
Spiritual
" The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude. "
John Ortberg
Fruit
Spirit
People
" The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable. "
John Ortberg
Stop
Character
Day
" Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. "
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Language
Women
Sick
" Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. "
John Ortberg
Theme
Depth
Go
" 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
" Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy. "
John Ortberg
Thoughts
Up
Battle
" 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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God
Faith
Brave
" Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. "
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Shaped
Who
Generally
" To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. "
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Fast
Me
Life
" Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart. "
John Ortberg
Think
Sin
Cancer
" My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously. "
John Ortberg
Could
Most
Wife