These days, choosing discomfort looks more like doing the dishes or taking the dog for a walk. It takes the form of confronting a coworker or turning down an opportunity to travel to make sure a spreadsheet gets balanced. Still, the lesson is the same; the thing you try to avoid the most is often the remedy for your own self-centeredness.
Jeff GoinsIf you're trying to serve someone in need and it doesn't hurt a little, you're doing something wrong.
Jeff GoinsWhen the passion goes away, it's the practice that sustains us. This is the fruit of commitment, the reason it's worth the hardship. When you commit to something, anything, it allows you to practice what you love.
Jeff GoinsOther cultures make a clear delineation between childhood and adulthood; there are rites of passages and initiation ceremonies to mark these transitions. People expect and are willing to expose young people to hardship and pain, because it helps them grow.
Jeff GoinsWhen we look at what we have to offer—our skills, gifts, and desires—before asking what is needed of us, we are putting the cart before the horse, or the gifts before the call. The question a disciple must first ask is not, "What am I good at?" but rather, "What is required of me?
Jeff GoinsWe always assume someone else will come to the rescue, but it's never us. Surely somebody will have the decency to be the hero. Right? It doesn't work like that. Not when everyone assumes someone else will do the right thing.
Jeff GoinsTo be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not.
Jeff GoinsStichwörter: selfishness comfort-zone wrecked
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