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We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.

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We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.
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When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.
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We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of pain and suffering. That responsibility belongs to the resurrected Christ, and he will do it when he returns. But until that day, we do with an undivided heart whatever God calls us to do.
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Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.
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Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.
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We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us...because we love His glory more than we love our lives.
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What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.
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Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.
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The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
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This is the gospel. The just and loving Creator of the universe has looked upon hopelessly sinful people and sent His Son, God in the flesh, to bear His wrath against sin on the cross and to show His power over sin in the resurrection so that all who trust in Him will be reconciled to God forever.
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The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
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Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.
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This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
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As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.
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God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.
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The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.
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There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
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