"You're afraid? So what. Everybody's afraid.
Fear is the common ground of humanity.
The question you must wrestle to the ground is, 'Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?'"
From Andy Stanley's book, The Next Generation Leader
An Essential Element of Pastoral Ministry
Pastors.com has a great leadership article this month. Check out this quote from its author, Kevin Harney.
"When Jesus was reviled, he did not retaliate. When he was mocked, he
prayed for forgiveness. When the Savior was denied three times by
Peter, he willingly died on the cross for his sins. Then he rose from
the dead, and called Peter back to himself and a place of fruitful
ministry.
As pastors, we will have plenty of opportunities to forgive people in our church, on our leadership team, and even our closest friends in the Church."
Donald Miller on Life Change
It is always the simple things that change our lives.
And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen.
Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so.
You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 217
Quote about Anger
Dallas Willard's definition of anger:
"It is a feeling that seizes us in our body and immediately impels us toward interfering with, and possibly even harming, those who have thwarted our will and interfered with our life."
Anger, Willard notes, is frequently used to make others around us change their course of action. In so doing, it thwarts their will, resulting in anger on their part. My anger feeds off your anger, and back again.
From Craige McMillan's article, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19319
Quote: From Jethani's Book
Aggregating an audience isn’t successful ministry. Fostering women, men, and children toward deep, internal, and unyielding communion with Christ that transforms their lives and produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—that is ministry worth celebrating. To do this work we don’t need the self-centered methodologies of consumerism, but the counter-intuitive and foolish ways of God’s kingdom.
From Skye Jethani's book Divine Commodity
