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The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.

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In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
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Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
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To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
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We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.
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God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
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Give liberally. Go urgently. Live dangerously.
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