‘If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and as he could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.’
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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” Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke
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“Faith today is treated as something that only should make us different, not that actually does or can make us different. In reality we vainly struggle against the evils of the world, waiting to die and go to heaven. Somehow we’ve gotten the idea that the essence of faith is entirely a mental and inward thing.”
Dallas Willard
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Wherever you are, be all there”
Jim Elliot, missionary to Ecuador
So much can be said in just a few words. Jim Elliot was a missionary who lost his life in 1956 at the hands of the Aucas, a primitive indian tribe in Ecuador. He gave his life with the desire to give them the message of eternal life found in Christ. We are where God has planted us. In order for us to honor God in His service, we must be all we can, wherever we are.
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“God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him… When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.”
Oswald Chambers
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“Christian commitment is not popular, vogue, or even politically correct. It is not always dazzling, spectacular or miraculous. But it is daily and does not come and go. It is the faithfulness to the call that challenges the world today, just as it is the world that challenges our faithfulness to the call. Those who respond for any reason other than total abandonment to Christ and His life will find the choking thorns of this world too strong to overcome. Only total commitment will run the race and finish the fight.”
Randy Pool, NAMB Missionary
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“Missions makes this point: it is not about us and our preferences. It is about his mission and the fact that he sends us. We want to practice our preferences. We want things to be the way we like them. But God wants us to be on mission with him, to be sent to some group of people somewhere, and to minister in a way that meets their needs, not promotes our preferences.”
Ed Stetzer, Breaking the Missional Code
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“The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven. When believers serve only because they feel guilty if the don’t, it’s as though they serve with a ball and chain dragging from their ankles. There’s no love in that kind of service, only labor. There’s no joy, only obligation and drudgery. But Christians aren’t prisoners who should serve in God’s Kingdom grudgingly because of guilt. We can serve willingly because Christ’s death freed us from guilt.”
Donald S. Whitney
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“This is the fear of the Lord. Most of our fears are poisonous. They steal sleep and pillage peace. But this fear is different. From a biblical perspective, there is nothing neurotic about fearing God. The neurotic thing is to not be afraid, or to be afraid of the wrong thing. That is why God chooses to be known to us, so that we may stop being afraid of the wrong thing. When God is fully revealed to us and we ‘get it’, then we experience the conversion of our fear… “Fear of the Lord’ is the deeply sane recognition that we are not God.”
Max Lucado, Fearless
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“An essential church does not compete for sanctuary fillers. An essential church battles the dark powers for the hearts and minds of the lost.” Thom Rainer, Essential Church
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