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A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.

Mark Driscoll

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Mark Driscoll
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 11
Pastor
Writer
Grand Forks
North Dakota
People
Using
Loving
Church

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You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.
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Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things
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Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.
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Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
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Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.
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I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.
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I'll preach anywhere. If it's a round trip ticket to preach in hell, I'll take it-as long as it's round trip.
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Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.
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