Douglas Reis
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and the biggest goal I have for the ministry God has blessed me with, is to encourage as many people as possible to be killing sin and striving for universal holiness –
“the materially poor have an even deeper walk with God and have insights and experiences that they can share with us, if we would just stop talking and listen.”
― When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
― When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
“Jesus indicates that it is possible to gain the whole world but lose your own soul. If he were talking to us as Christian leaders today, he might point out that it is possible to gain the world of ministry success and lose your own soul in the midst of it all.”
― Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
― Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
“Christians are assimilating a culture of busyness, hurry and overload, which leads to 2) God becoming more marginalized in Christians’ lives, which leads to 3) a deteriorating relationship with God, which leads to 4) Christians becoming even more vulnerable to adopting secular assumptions about how to live, which leads to 5) more conformity to a culture of busyness, hurry and overload. And then the cycle begins again.”
― Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
― Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership: Seeking God in the Crucible of Ministry
“Spiritual theology is what pastors do—give themselves to getting what we know about God/Jesus lived in the round of ordinary life.”
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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