“I can’t teach people to obey something if I don’t know how I obey.”
“What I found in trying to go through this process with some pastors and some other leaders was that, when I asked them, ‘Well what do you do around this command? Like, how do you make sure that you’re humble? Or how do you make sure that you love your neighbor?’ And what I would get back was kind of like a sermon.”
“Somebody who is a very good negotiator can tell you exactly what they do when they negotiate….Similarly, if we are living out [Jesus’] commands, we can tell you exactly how to do it.”
“You may have a lot of good disciplers in your congregation who do this kind of thing, but in the corporate world, and would thus be good at doing that through the church.”
“Jesus is not wishy washy about stuff….over and over and over again he is saying, ‘Listen to my words, and you need to do them.’”
“I can’t feel like I’m living out the Great Commission if I don’t know what the commands are, and I can’t teach people to obey them if I don’t know how I obey them.”
“The first time you do something, you’re always doing it poorly. That’s just the way it is. And so, there’s this idea that once you do something, you need to keep repeating it in order for it to become both a habit, but also to do it well.”
“If you haven’t changed how you do [a skill], you probably haven’t mastered it yet because somebody who has mastered something will continuously tweak what they’re doing.”
“You in fact can’t do it on your own…in order to live these things out, you need to ask for God’s help.”
“This way of living will and should bring you to your knees multiple times.”
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