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• John Ortberg:

  When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the

• John Ortberg:

  Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shape

• John Ortberg:

  Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit

• John Ortberg:

  I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many p

• John Ortberg:

  Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

• John Ortberg:

  I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough

• John Ortberg:

  The church is in the hope business.

• John Ortberg:

  Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

• John Ortberg:

  Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

• John Ortberg:

  The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist