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Sin is not just action. It's life direction.

Mark Driscoll

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Mark Driscoll
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 11
Pastor
Writer
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Sin
Action
Life
Direction

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Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.
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I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.
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Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
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Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic.
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The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.
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God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let her lead a bible study at a high school. But she could raise God.
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If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.
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Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
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Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk and naked driving around in a loud motorcycle smoking cigarrettes breaking commandments getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!
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Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!
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Ladies, use a loving voice, use a respectful voice, use a godly voice, but don't lose your voice.
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So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.
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You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.
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An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
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A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.
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Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.
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The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.
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A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either.
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