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JOURNEY WITH JESUS

“Our lives are not problems to be solved but journeys to be taken with Jesus as our friend and finest guide.”

@HenriNouwen

via Mike Sandefur on Facebook

posted : Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

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“ Let’s feel no pressure to change quickly. Odd thing for a pastor to say. But we need to go deeper than speed allows.
— @rayortlund

posted : Monday, January 23rd, 2012

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“ Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam & collapsed.
— Robert Farrar Capon

posted : Sunday, January 15th, 2012

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“ 96% of church growth is due to transfer growth instead of churches striking into enemy territory.
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Mike Breen

via @JonTyson

posted : Friday, January 13th, 2012

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READ THE GOSPELS!

“The doctrines on which our discipleship rests are clearest in the epistles, but the nature of discipleship itself is most vividly portrayed in the gospels.

Some Christians seem to prefer the epistles as if this were a mark of growing up spiritually; but really this attitude is a very bad sign, suggesting that we are more interested in theological notions than in fellowship with the Lord Jesus in person.

We should think, rather, of the theology of the epistles as preparing us to understand better the disciple relationship with Christ that is set forth in the gospels, and we should never let ourselves forget that the four gospels are, as has often and rightly been said, the most wonderful books on earth.”

J. I. Packer
Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2005), p. 70, 71.

via Justin Taylor

posted : Thursday, January 12th, 2012

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“ One of our fundamental misunderstandings of spiritual maturity is thinking that it should result in self-sufficiency. It’s the exact opposite. The goal isn’t independence; the goal is [dependence] on God. Our desire for self-sufficiency is a subtle expression of our sinful nature. It’s a desire to get to a place where we don’t need God, don’t need faith, and don’t need to pray. We want God to provide more so we need Him less.
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Mark Batterson

“The Circle Maker”

posted : Thursday, January 12th, 2012

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CONVERSIONS THAT COUNT

“The only conversions that count in the kingdom are those confirmed by a life of discipleship.”

~Craig S. Keener

via @alanhirsch

posted : Saturday, January 7th, 2012

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“ If you can’t reproduce disciples, you’ll never reproduce leaders. If you can’t reproduce leaders, you’ll never reproduce churches. If you can’t reproduce churches, you’ll never see a movement.
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Neil Cole

Organic Leadership, p. 250

posted : Friday, January 6th, 2012

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