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We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve.
- Paul David Tripp
if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.
- Paul David Tripp
But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?
- Paul David Tripp
If you're God's, to tell yourself you can't do what you've been called to do is to preach private heresy. You've been enabled by grace.
- Paul David Tripp
We are called to have Scripture so deeply engrained in our lives that we are wise and thankful, and thus always ready to teach and admonish (confront) one another.
- Paul David Tripp
what is the big thing that you are living for right now?
- Paul David Tripp
This is the upside-down world of ministry calling. The pathway to freedom is servanthood, the pathway to greatness is slavery, and the pathway to deep and lasting joy—joy that people and circumstance cannot take away—is denying yourself
- Paul David Tripp
To be part of God's redemptive rescue is not only a high calling but a moral obligation.
- Paul David Tripp
God calls him a mighty man not because of Gideon's natural strength and courage, but because of what Gideon will be able to do in the power that God will give him.
- Paul David Tripp
God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.
- Paul David Tripp
Now, if these people are not the focus and object of ministry, then what is ministry?
- Paul David Tripp
We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.
- Paul David Tripp