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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.

Erwin McManus

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Erwin McManus
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
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God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.
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When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.
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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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When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.
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Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
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Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
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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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It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
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When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.
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God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.
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The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.
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To be apathetic is literally to be without passion.
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People who are fully alive look out of their minds to those who simply exist.
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When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.
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The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.
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To live outside of God's will puts us in danger to live in his will makes us dangerous.
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