“In 1966 John Lennon commented to the American press that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. He may have been right. There is a difference between being preeminent and being popular.”
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
“the whole Bible is itself a missional phenomenon. The writings that now comprise our Bible are themselves the product of and witness to the ultimate mission of God. The Bible renders to us the story of God's mission through God's people in their engagement with God's world for the sake of the whole of God's creation. The Bible is the drama of this God of purpose engaged in the mission of achieving that purpose universally, embracing past, present and future, Israel and the nations, "life, the universe and everything," and with its centre, focus, climax, and completion in Jesus Christ. Mission is not just one of a list of things that the Bible happens to talk about, only a bit more urgently than some. Mission is, in that much-abused phrase, "what it's all about.”
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“Remember, the only real leader you have is Jesus Christ. Unless you are daily taught of Him you will not be able to make the right decisions. To get to Him you need to pray, but it needs to be prayer of a unique quality. You can pray all night and all day and still not be in touch with His will. Prayer is not full and effective unless it adds up to our learning to wait upon the Lord for Him to make known His will. He needs to break down our tendency to cry out in prayer "Your will be done," and then to get up and still try to impose our will on circumstances.”
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
― The Heart of a Servant Leader: Letters from Jack Miller
“Personally, on a big-picture level, I know and delight in the preeminence of Jesus and have yielded my life to that reality. But on a granular level, I still find myself competing with Jesus for glory. I do things Jesus desires with motivations Jesus despises.”
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
― Glory Hunger: God, the Gospel, and Our Quest for Something More
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