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Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
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So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.
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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
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You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.
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The fuel of ambition is not the problem it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
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Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
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When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
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How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.
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I guess when I really think about it, God's voice sounds a lot like my voice.
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Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
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Courage is not the absence of fear it is the absence of self.
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Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever
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We can’t change history, but we can create the future.
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I think a lot of us are not on a path we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
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