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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity.

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    John Stott
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    The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ.

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    Richard Bauckham
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    The early church had no single answer to the question of the relevance of the Sabbath commandment to Christians. The churches of the New Testament period included a variety of views.

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    Brené Brown
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    Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Skill in contextualization is one of the keys to effective ministry today. In particular, churches in urban and cultural centers must be exceptionally sensitive to issues of contextualization, because...

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    Tod E. Bolsinger
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    Psalm 15:1-2, Ephesians 4:15, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Colossians 3:12-14, Romans 12:9-10
    Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to ...

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    Viktor E. Frankl
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    In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

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    Susan Wolf
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    A person’s life can be meaningful only if she cares fairly deeply about some things, only if she is gripped, excited, interested, engaged.

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    Skye Jethani
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    My secret is that I want to be relevant and popular. I want my desires fulfilled and pain minimized. I want a manageable relationship with an institution rather than messy relationships with real peop...

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    Brenda Salter McNeil
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    Reconciliation is about how to relate even after forgiveness and justice have occurred. It’s about how to delve even deeper into relationship with one another. An absence of hostility is possible with...

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    Leo Tolstoy
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    Acts 20:24, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Colossians 3:1-2, Romans 14:17, Philippians 3:13-14, Matthew 6:33
    The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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    Richard Rohr
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    Genesis 13:8-12 , Ruth 1:16-18, Jonah 3:10, Luke 10:38-42, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, Psalm 133:1
    The True Self is all about right relationship, not requirements. It’s not about being correct; it’s about being connected, which you always were—you just didn’t realize it.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours... it is precisely through ...

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    It is precisely because of the eternity outside time that everything in time becomes valuable and important and meaningful. Therefore, Christianity ... makes it of urgent importance that everything we...

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    Mike Bickle
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    Our lives only have meaning as we understand them with respect to obedience to Christ Jesus who is seated at the Father’s right hand. If we lose our focus on Him, then we lose our connection with real...

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    Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp
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    When we are in meaningful relationships with one another, we each bring a unique perspective and experience to our knowledge of Christ’s love. One person has been rescued from a menacing addition. Ano...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the o...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life

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    Brené Brown
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    What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

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    Flannery O'Connor
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    There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today ...

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    John Ortberg
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    For me, a table is a reminder that what really matters in life is relationships. We are hardwired for emotional connection to other people. We want to be known. We crave being loved. We want to be acc...

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    J. Richard Middleton
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    Matthew 25:34-40, Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 21:12-13, Luke 10:25-37, Romans 12:2, Matthew 5:13-16
    To focus our expectation in an otherworldly salvation has the potential to dissipate our resistance to societal evil and the dedication needed to work for the redemptive transformation of this world.

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    Brené Brown
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    Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.

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    Diana Hill
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    The more you engage in meaningful activities, the more likely you are to experience discomfort.

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    Craig Dykstra And Dorothy Bass
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    We long to see our lives whole and to know that they matter. We wonder whether our many activities might ever come together in a way of life that is good for ourselves and others. Are we really living...

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    Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald Guthrie
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    Every ministry context-whether in the family, a church, or another organization-has a complicated structure of relationships. The capacity to act and to influence others is largely a result of the his...

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    Robert Frost
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    Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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    Victor Hugo
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    Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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    Source Unknown
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    People have two reasons for doing anything—a good reason and the real reason.

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    Harold Kushner
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    True religion goes beyond making sense. It does not offend reason, it transcends reason. People do not start to see the world differently because someone has written a book giving them good reasons fo...
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