This means that we can take whatever the world can throw at us for glorifying Christ. It means we can die for glorifying Christ. Whether we live or die our eternal destiny is as unshakeable as God's concern for his own glory. Who then shall we fear?
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What are you looking for in your team? How do you want to disciple your team? You are after people for whom the glory of God being magnified in the church is – or will clearly become – their consuming passion
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In the absence of clear boundaries between work and non-work for us, our drift is always upwards towards doing more and away from ministering with a quiet spirit. We can a lot but find that none of it is fresh any more. Large quatities of ministry isn’t necessarily good ministr
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what do leadership patterns look like for me that allow me to lead out of a place of stillness with God, joy in God and a personal, white hot passion for the glory of God? What leadership patterns would make me stray out and stay out of that place? What will put me, for the long haul in a place of spiritual vitality and capacity, what demands would put me in a place of long term attrition for my soul?
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Let me say this carefully – but I really mean it – it is possible for a desire for excellence to replace a passion for the glory of God. The tendency is to elitify everything and for slick presentation to take over from all the saints doing the work of ministry. And for us to justify it to ourselves because what else was all that hard study in aid of, if not for us to do everything to a higher standard than anyone else can?
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