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God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn't just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.
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missions
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Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.
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money
wealth
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John Piper |
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At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
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Dan Simmons |
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After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.
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Sarah Vowell |
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God demonstrated His wisdom in that, even as people in Europe began despising the gospel, He was already preparing to go somewhere else.
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