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The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

~John Ortberg

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Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

~John Ortberg

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As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.

~John Ortberg

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People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.

~John Ortberg

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Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

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Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

~John Ortberg

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Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.

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Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

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In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.

~John Ortberg

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The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

~John Ortberg

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 5th, 1957

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