John Ortberg Quotes

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• Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision,…
• When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it…
• The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in…
• A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
• Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
• As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the…
• Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.
• Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can…
• Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to…
• Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway…
• Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
• God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith…
• In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups.…
• God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.
• Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen…
• The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life…
• My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.
• This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations.…
• Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
• Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really,…

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