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" 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
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" 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. "
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" I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally. "
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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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Look
Heart
" Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism. "
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" Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. "
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Destiny
Own
" My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously. "
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Most
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" You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody. "
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Loved
Somebody
" Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. "
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Through
Exercise
Amusement
" A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. "
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See
Like
Everyone
" People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible. "
John Ortberg
People
Bible
Cheer
" Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving. "
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Authority
Why
" 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
" Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. "
John Ortberg
Will
Spiritual
Leadership
" Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. "
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Jesus
Rules
Universal
" 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
" Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects. "
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Prudence
Decisions
Ability
" 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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Work
Grind
World
" It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us. "
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Us
Best
Worst
" Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war. "
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War
God
Death
" When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part. "
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Love
Problems
Research
" The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude. "
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Spirit
People
" 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. "
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God
Live
" When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. "
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Done
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" What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well. "
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" I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up. "
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" Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. "
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Differences
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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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Slow
Women
" The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness. "
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Down
" 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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Language
Integrity