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" Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. "
John Ortberg
Early
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Women
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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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" Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience. "
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" Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis. "
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" 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. "
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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
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Always
Want
" I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity. "
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Yourself
You
" When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with. "
John Ortberg
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Just Be
Someone
" 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. "
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Build
Power
Sin
" When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right. "
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I Can
Think
Time
" We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol. "
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Bible
Family
Someone
" You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody. "
John Ortberg
Only
Loved
Somebody
" 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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Leave
Me
" 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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Failure
Done
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" 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
" To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. "
John Ortberg
Fast
Me
Life
" Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around. "
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Person
Loving
Better
" Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.' "
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Convince
Real
Out
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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Cancer
" 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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" The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. "
John Ortberg
Idols
Even
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" I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift. "
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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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Us
Community
Ghetto
" Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. "
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Shaped
Who
Generally
" 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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