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Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.
Tony Evans
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The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil.
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We've got to move from membership to discipleship to being full-time Christians, not part-time saints. That means operating comprehensively on the value system of Heaven as we move about in history.
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Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house.
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The Church has failed to be a positive influence for good in our nation and our world.
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Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.
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I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.
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Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.
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Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.
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The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.
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Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.
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In the urban community, the church doesn't just take people to Heaven; it feeds, clothes, and houses them. It teaches them how to read and gets them jobs. The church should be doing all that. What the government should be doing is freeing up the church and supporting the church, as long as it is providing social services.
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