| QUOTES from Alcorn's
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There is such a thing as righteous anger. God
is furious about the mistreatment of the poor and needy and
defenseless. But our “righteous anger” is too often
self-righteous anger. Whether you are fighting human-rights
violations, slavery, prostitution, pornography, drugs, crime,
drunk driving, or abortion, keep your eyes on Jesus or you will
either burn out or rely upon your own strength, not his. [77]
You become like what you choose to behold.
Behold Christ, you become Christlike. Gaze upon superficiality
and immorality, and it’s equally predictable what you’ll become.
[82]
The key to self-control is discipline, which
produces a long-term track record of small choices in which we
yield to God’s Spirit, resulting in new habits and lifestyles.
Spirit-control and self-control are interrelated in Scripture,
because godly self-control is a yielding of self to God’s
Spirit. [83]
Many people say they want to write a book.
What they really want is to
have written a book.
Talking about writing a book is very easy. Writing a book is
very difficult. That’s why there are more talkers than writers.
And that’s why more people talk about the Christian life than
life it. We want the fruit of the spiritual disciplines, but
often we’re unwilling to do the work they actually require. We
want the rewards without the sacrifices. [84]
Christians around the world know suffering and
glorify God in their suffering, enduring to the end. Prosperity
theology, entitlement theology, is not from Jesus—it’s the
creation of Christianized western materialism. Any gospel that
is truer in California than in China is not the true gospel.
[92]
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