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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
Direction
Sin
Action
Life

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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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This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.
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Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!
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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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Fear is vision without hope.
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Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.
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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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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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...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.
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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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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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I am not ashamed of the Gospel.
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God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.
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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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Faith only grows through suffering.
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Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
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Being single is not easy. But neither is being married. They are just difficult in different ways as God uses everything in our life to make us more like Jesus, who happened to live a perfect life while single.
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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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