Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree along time a ago.

- Warren Buffet

We tend to think of the immediate payoff when deciding what to do next.  What will have an immediate effect?  What will bring me immediate pleasure, immediate reward, immediate satisfaction, immediate recognition, immediate results?

Nothing big would ever be accomplished if we all thought this way. Take the long view.

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Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation. Evangelical humiliation is a sense that a Christian has of his own utter insufficiency, despicableness, and odiousnesss, with an answerable frame of heart.

Jonathan Edwards, A Treatise on Religious Affections

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How to be a difference maker in a local church.

Found on the Sovereign Grace Ministries blog:

At the Next 2010 Conference, Kevin DeYoung gave a list of suggestions for “How to be a difference maker in a local church.”  A few of them were:

  • Find a good local church. 
  • Get involved.
  • Become a member. 
  • Stay there as long as you can. 
  • Put away thoughts of a revolution for a while.
  • Be patient with your leaders. 
  • Rejoice when the gospel is faithfully proclaimed.
  • Bear with those who hurt you. 
  • Give people the benefit of the doubt. 
  • Be thankful someone vacuumed the carpet for you. 
  • Enjoy the Sundays that “click.” 
  • Pray extra hard on the Sundays that don’t. 

View the full list on the Sovereign Grace Blog and listen to the message “The Church” on ThisNext.org

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As long as we imagine we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

A.W. Tozer

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