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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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