"The tendency is to look for the marvellous in our experience; we mistake the sense of the heroic for being heroes. It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us." ---Oswald Chambers
"Worship is important, but it tends to be overemphasized in the contemporary church. It is very easy for the emphasis on worship to become a throwback to the Temple rather than a pushing forward to the strategy of Christ as represented in the Valiant Seventy. There is a tendency, for example, to forget that Christ rejected the idea of a shrine as a necessary physical center of religious experience. This is the clear point of His unequivocal answer to the question of the Samaritan woman. 'The hour is coming,' He said, 'when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father' (John 4:21). Worship for the follower of Christ, whatever its details, can never be a matter of place." ---Elton Trueblood in The Company of the Committed
"There is a beauty in community that the world longs to experience. When one is a part of a growing circle of true friends, he or she will experience acceptance of who they really are, affirmation of what God has given them to do, and accountability that keeps them on the right path. But there's more! The Lord didn't simply fuse us together with one another, He joined us inseparably to Himself as well! And in so doing unleashed the power of heaven into each one of our lives. Now, He wants to release that very power through our lives to a world still in need of a Savior's redeeming love and grace. In a day when confusion seems to be mounting a worldwide comeback, this could be our finest moment. ---James Ryle
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