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#1. I can almost picture the disciples faces. No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

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#2. Moreover, in removing race and racism from the discussion altogether, we're paving the way for us as one race to call racism what it actually is: sin borne in a heart of pride and prejudice.

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#3. When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus

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#4. God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth.

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#5. We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.

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#6. If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

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#7. In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

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#8. Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

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#9. Most people are accusing God, asking, "How can you punish sinners? How can you let good people go to hell?" But the question the Bible asks is exactly the opposite: "God, how can you be just and still let guilty sinners into heaven?" And the only answer to that question is Jesus Christ.

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#10. Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

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#11. To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.

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#12. Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

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#13. Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.

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#14. Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

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#15. The primary reward of the gospel - God himself

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#16. But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

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#17. The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

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#18. Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?

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#19. Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

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#20. Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

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#21. The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11

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#22. The boss says that games in hand are no good unless you turn them into points. What he's getting at is that games in hand aren't much good unless you turn them into points.

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#23. God creates, blesses and saves each of us for a radically global purpose

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#24. Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

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#25. God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

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#26. And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.

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#27. Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

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#28. The journey begins, though, with understanding what it means to be a christian. To say you believe in Jesus apart from conversion in your life completely misses the essence of what it means to follow him. Do not be deceived.

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#29. We assume that our race simply deserves heaven, that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

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#30. In a culture where bigger is always better and flashy is always more effective, Jesus beckons each of us to plainly, humbly, and quietly focus our lives on people.

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#31. Radical obedience to Christ is not easy ... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

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#32. Clearly our greatest need is not more regulations in order to merit salvation.

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#33. When we delight in something, we declare our delight. When we adore someone, we announce our adoration. Isn't this, then, the essence of worship - lifting up with our lips and our lives the one we love above everything else?

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#34. And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

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#35. Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

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#36. We bask in sermons, conferences, and books that exalt a grace centering on us.

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#37. If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true - that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the gospel, and to love and obey Jesus Christ, incur at the Last Advent an infinite and irreparable loss. They will pass into a night on which no morning dawns.

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#38. We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

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#39. BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD,
SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.

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#40. Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

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#41. How many of us are embracing the comforts of suburban America while we turn a deaf ear to inner cities in need of the gospel?

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#42. What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?

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#43. Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

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#44. Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

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#45. He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

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#46. What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

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#47. God has given us his grace to extend his glory not just to areas of need here but to areas of need around the world. Not either here or there, but both here and there. In

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#48. My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.

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#49. My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

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#50. As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

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#51. Don't underestimate what God can do with ordinary people.

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#52. In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

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#53. Craig Bellamy's got pace, but he's also rapid as well

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#54. Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

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#55. [ ... ]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

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#56. By God's design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian's DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

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#57. When Jesus comes to the earth in the New Testament, we are quickly introduced to him as an immigrant. Fleeing a brutal political situation in Bethlehem after he is born, Jesus' family travels to Egypt, where they live for years as sojourners in a foreign land.

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#58. The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

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#59. God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

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#60. No matter how many red Xs we write on our hands to end slavery, as long as these same hands are clicking on pornographic websites and scrolling through sexual pictures and videos, we are frauds to the core.

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#61. David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals.
(on David Johnson)

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#62. If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

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#63. We don't go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.

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#64. And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

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#65. It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

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#66. The formal definition of impact is a forcible contact between two things, and God has designed our lives for a collision course with the world.

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#67. God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

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#68. While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

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#69. The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness- known among all nations.' Now God is the object of our faith, and Christianity centers around him. We are not the end of the gospel; God is'

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#70. We can accomplish more in one month of dependence on the Spirit than we can in 100 years of dependence on ourselves.

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#71. The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

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#72. Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.

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#73. Plainly put, a relationship with jesus requires total, superior, and exclusive devotion.

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#74. But out of this group of "born-again Christians," researchers found that their beliefs and lifestyles are virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world around them.

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#75. Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.

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#76. When Jesus looked at the harassed and helpless multitudes, apparently his concern was not that the lost would not come to the Father. Instead his concern was that his followers would not go to the lost.

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#77. The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

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#78. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.

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#79. What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

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#80. The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.

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#81. Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

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#82. Accept him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need him? Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender.

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#83. We have nothing to fear, because God is sovereign.

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#84. God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

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#85. No teachers (including Jesus) in the New Testament ever promise material wealth as a reward for obedience.

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#86. We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

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#87. the founders concluded, if God himself does not violate the religious freedom of man, then surely government shouldn't either.

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#88. I was immersed in comfortable Christianity. Years ago, I found myself living what seemed like the American church dream - pastoring a large church, living in a large house, and surrounded by all the comforts this world has to offer. But inside I had a sinking feeling that I was missing the point.

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#89. God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

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#90. God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

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#91. Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

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#92. Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point of Christianity and ironically devolves into a me-centered approach.

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#93. When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.

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#94. As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

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#95. Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.

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#96. We are, by nature, receivers. Even if we have a desire to learn God's Word, we still listen from a default self-centered mind-set that is always asking, What can I get out of this?

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#97. The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are compelled to take an honest look at your life, your family, and your church and not just ask, 'What is he saying?' but also ask, 'What shall I do?'

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#98. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.

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#99. We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

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#100. Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

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