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Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.
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One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.
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Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!
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This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.
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On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.
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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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So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.
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The very first word out of Jesus mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent.
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Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God
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God involves us in his mission not because he needs us but because he loves us.
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Caring for the poor is one natural overflow and a necessary evidence of the presence of Christ in our hearts. If there is no sign of caring for the poor in our lives, then there is reason to at least question whether Christ is in our hearts.
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It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued.
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To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.
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Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.
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There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
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We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.
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We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
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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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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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