Hurry Is Not Just A Disordered Schedule.

One Of The Great Misconceptions About Spiritual Growth That Develops In A Lot Of Churches Is That Information Alone Is Adequate To Produce Transformed Human Beings. So If We Want To Have A Church Of Spiritually Mature People, Let's Just Keep Cramming More And More Information Into Them... Information Alone Is Not Adequate For The Transformation Of The Human Personality.

In A Contagious World,we Learn To Keep Our Distance. If We Get Too Close To Those Who Are Suffering, We Might Get Infected By Their Pain. It May Not Be Convenient Or Comfortable. But Only When You Get Close Enough To Catch Their Hurt Will They Be Close Enough To Catch Your Love.

Biblically, Waiting Is Not Just Something We Have To Do Until We Get What We Want. Waiting Is Part Of The Process Of Becoming What God Wants Us To Be.

The Harder You Strike It, The Deeper It Goes.

God Is Still In The Business Of Coming Down To Earth: To This Cubicle, This Email, This Room, This House, This Job, This Hospital Room, This Car, This Bed, This Vacation. Any Place Can Become Bethel, The House Of God. Cleveland, Maybe. Or The Chair You're Sitting In As You Read These Words.