Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you learn to do it well.
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I can think of hardly anything that will kill your joy and freedom more than wearing a mask geared to get others to accept you because you are acting like them.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Jesus invited us to a dance … and we’ve turned it into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we’re doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Whenever a new Christian comes into the church, I wince a bit, because I’m afraid that they will get the “religion disease,” that the “church virus” will kill off the joy and freedom Jesus purchased on the cross to give them.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
There really is something neurotic about Christians who spend most of their time trying desperately to please a God who is already very pleased. They don’t have any freedom, and they sometimes take away the freedom of others.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Our freedom has been taken away because we thought that we couldn’t be free unless we were perfect.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Our honest belief that we can be far better than we are is one of the major reasons we are so bound.
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God will not only love you if you don’t get better; he will teach you that getting better isn’t the issue. His love is the issue.
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Perfectionism robs you of your freedom.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
It’s not very smart to keep trying to do something you can’t do and never will be able to do.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Perfectionism will make you sour, mean, and judgmental, and it will rob you of the freedom Jesus died to give you.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Too many of us have come to believe in a God who is a child abuser, a God who demands that we go through hell to get to heaven.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
If God, who loves us, has given us an instruction manual, and we ignore the instructions, we have no right to complain because we are miserable and hurt. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of Christians who sow their wild oats and pray for a crop failure.
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When Being Good Isn't Good Enough Quotes
If you worship a God who is out to get you, you will never be free … free to cuss and spit, free to move to joyous acceptance, and free to get on with your life.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Do you want to know what God is like? Then look at Jesus. If you want to know how God reacts to people, look at how Jesus reacted to people. If you want to know what God thinks, how he acts and who he is, don’t get with a group of people and vote on it. One doesn’t discover divine truth with an election. If you want to know the truth about God, don’t get a book on theology, listen to a preacher, or even read a book like this one. For God’s sake, go to Jesus.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
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Approaching God: Accepting the Invitation to Stand in the Presence of God Quotes
It is no small thing to be loved when you’re unlovable, to be forgiven the unforgivable, and to be supported when you’ve done nothing to deserve it. That’s the gospel. And that’s why free sins are so important. It’s the good news that while there are those who might sacrifice for a good man or woman, “at the right time Christ died for the ungodly [that would be us!]. . . . God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6, 8).
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Three Free Sins: God's Not Mad at You Quotes
Forgiveness is at the very heart of the Christian faith. It’s not about getting better, becoming more religious, or following the rules so God will love you. It’s all about forgiveness, dummy! Everything else is secondary. If we don’t keep the main thing the main thing, then everything else will turn sour on us.
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Three Free Sins: God's Not Mad at You Quotes
Love in response to goodness isn’t love, but reward. Fortunately for us, that’s not God’s way. Our relationship with God is not a matter of reward, but of love. And that’s why we can enjoy such staggering freedom in his presence.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
It is so freeing to realize that we don’t have anything to prove or to protect. We don’t have to fix anything. God doesn’t need any help. He did fine before we came along and will do fine long after we’re gone. The great thing about being a Christian is that you can forgive, love, and encourage ’em all, and then let God sort it out.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
When I became a Christian two things happened. I got saved and I got loved. I got loved so deeply that it still amazes me when I think about it. Because I got loved so deeply, I want to please the One who loved me that much. I may not always please Him—sometimes I even run in the other direction, because His love can really hurt. I may chafe against pleasing Him; I may find myself in a very far country; I may not even speak to Him. But I’ll tell you something: I want to please Him and when I don’t please Him it hurts.
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When Being Good Isn't Good Enough Quotes
Whenever a Christian follows authority figures who don’t allow questions about themselves or their direction or teaching, get out and don’t look back. Whenever someone says he knows what’s best for your life, better than you do; whenever someone says that she speaks for God; whenever someone pretends to be anything other than a flawed human being who makes mistakes and sometimes gets it wrong—that person is sitting on a pedestal of his or her own making, and if you don’t destroy it, God will. So many freedom-destroying things we do are connected to an irresponsible decision to allow others to be to us what only God is supposed to be.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.
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A Scandalous Freedom Quotes
You are really and truly and completely free.
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When everything is messed up because people wanted to do it their way rather than God’s way, we need to be able to say, “Look. Don’t whine. We told you that God has given instructions. If you don’t obey them, don’t be surprised if the thing doesn’t work.” But we need also, when someone hasn’t obeyed the instructions, to let them know that they have a grand opportunity to experience Christ’s love and grace. If we don’t tell them that, we will be giving only half of the message. And that brings me to another “we-must-never.” The Presence of the Holy Spirit
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