The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.
Craig GroeschelGod could have programmed us as robots to do whatever he tells us, but then we'd never have the freedom to love and worship him.
Craig GroeschelTo those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.
Craig GroeschelWe don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
Craig GroeschelShame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.
Craig Groeschel