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To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Mark Batterson

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Mark Batterson
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 5
Pastor
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Maturity
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Growing
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I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.
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It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.
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If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
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God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.
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When we cling too tightly to what God did last, we often miss what God wants to do next.
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You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.
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Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.
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We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.
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Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality it just adds God into the equation.
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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
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One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
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Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
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You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
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The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.
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Don’t accumulate possessions accumulate experiences!
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Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.
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Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.
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May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.
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If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.
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The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
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