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“It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

tags: decision, excuse, god-s-will, holy-spirit, inaction-disobedience, making-decisions, open-mind, surrender

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“A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.”
― David Platt

tags: church, materialism

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“We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

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“[...]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.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

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“God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to the mountains, 'You go there,' and He says to the seas, 'You stop here, and they do it. Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator...until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, 'No.”
― David Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

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