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" The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject. "
Tony Evans
Reality
Truth Is
Truth
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" Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced. "
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" It is in following Christ as our captain that we can win in our personal lives, families, churches, and communities. "
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Win
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" Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history. "
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" Occasional setbacks are probably unavoidable - part of the struggle of living in a fallen world. Other setbacks are due to our own sin and failures, or circumstances outside our control. "
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World
Living
" If the church adopts a school, and the school has kids, and the kids have parents, well, then you've reconnected the hub of a community, because you've brought together its three most fundamental institutions - church, schools, and family. "
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Community
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" God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear. "
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Consequences
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" Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others. "
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Expression
God
Him
" Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor from being burnt out, which therefore keeps him in the ministry. "
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Him
Go
" The problem is that God is being dismissed from the culture, and that vacuum is allowing, or is the basis for, the deterioration of society. That is because Christians have not kept Him in the center of the culture. "
Tony Evans
Society
Culture
God
" Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society. "
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Law
Justice
Society
" People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do. "
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Colors
Together
Spirit
" The history of our country has been driven by a Judeo-Christian worldview, and so that has dominated the landscape. So it's important that we recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ without apology in our emphasis on prayer. "
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Important
History
Landscape
" Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house. "
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America
Election
Eyes
" There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him. "
Tony Evans
God
Question
Answers
" God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you. "
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Different
People
You
" Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting. "
Tony Evans
Think
Nature
Me
" God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority. "
Tony Evans
God
He
Different
" God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant. "
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Covenant
World
Those
" Slavery was ungodly, unrighteous, and unbiblical. "
Tony Evans
Slavery
" Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something. "
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Culture
You
Nature
" Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it. "
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Short
Bible
Fall
" The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics. "
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Go
You
Through
" The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future. "
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Large
Family
Families
" If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue. "
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Because
Hands
Know
" The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil. "
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Inclusion
Evil
Exclusion
" Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you. "
Tony Evans
Any
Man
Submit
" Churches need to be intentional about reaching the next generation by creating templates for young people to see that there is a stepping stone for leadership in this church. "
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Generation
People
Leadership
" The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has. "
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Kingdom
Church
Unique
" We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history. "
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Heaven
Move
System
" And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization. "
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You
Look
Family