It is the Father's life, and the Father's life alone, that ever lives the Christian life. It is the Father's life, and Father's life alone, which will live the Christian life in you. Embrace a formula or a list in order to "live the Christian life," and you are doomed to frustration.

Gene Edwards

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You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret...

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What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

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Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

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Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

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There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.

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God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer... by Gene Edwards

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

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Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

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Understand this: The Bible presents Christ. You have an inner sense of an indwelling Lord. You either have that or you do not. The man God needs will live in a vital, living relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering. by Gene Edwards

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

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