Ryan Clegg
https://www.goodreads.com/beardedryno
But uncertainty is just the same mystery, the same truth Colored blue, Blotted with fear instead of hope.
“Whatever you’re good at, do it well for the glory of God, and do it somewhere strategic for the mission of God.”
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
“The gospel alone produces the passion that sustains the mission. Programs and institutions can be useful servants of passion, but never its sustenance. The gospel is its sustenance.”
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
“Luther believed that every believer must discover how he or she is gifted by God to develop his world, because this is in large part how followers of Christ fulfill their callings. Thus, if God has given you “secular” skills — in business, banking, painting, landscaping, medicine, art, law, or the like — understand that there is nothing second-class about them. God uses your vocation to care for his world through you. As you work, you are being used by God in his original mission.”
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
“There comes a point in everybody’s life when you realize the stakes have suddenly changed. The carefree ride of your life slams into a stone wall; all those years of merely bouncing along, life taking you where you want to go, abruptly end.”
― 1st to Die
― 1st to Die
“It was a simple game. The goal was to “give away” all of your checkers by putting them in a position to be jumped and captured by the other player. The first one to “give away” all of his checkers was declared the winner. In essence, you won by losing. I didn’t know it at the time, but my dad was teaching me a powerful lesson about the marketplace, marriage, and ministry — because in each of these important arenas, those who give away the most end up gaining the most.”
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
― Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
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