Unoffendable
By Brant Hansen
- God never asked me to take a stand on everything, He told His followers to go make disciples, and that takes patience with people.
- Anger leads to disillusionment one way or another.
- Taking offense will wear you out, but for some it becomes a lifestyle.
- Anger and rest are always at odds. You cannot have both.
- We are very good at victimizing a story for our own benefit.
- While we want to keep in tact our self righteousness, Jesus dismantles it. Thinking we are not as bad as someone else does not from God’s teaching.
- Your goal should not be to try to change people, it should be to introduce them to a God that can change people.
- We sometimes think that our job as a Christian is to assess where people stand with God, but that is not our job at all.
- Ministry is serving others. It is not taking offense because you serve.
- To be in ministry is to choose to not be offendable.
- Pride makes it all about us.
- Grace is offensive to the self righteous.
- If you are always offended you should realize you have a ego problem.
- Real humility is self forgetfulness.
- God enjoys making things happen by using the humble.
- When we choose to not be offendedable before the day begins or before a conversation, we are choosing humility.
- When you are humble, you will be hard to offend because there is so little to defend.
- Self forgetfulness is not wishing our in-existence, self forgetfulness is actually healthy.
- Self forgetfulness is realizing you have been forgiven and therefore must forgive others.
- You might not know the route you are driving in life, but you know the Driver — and when you are satisfied with that, you can be unoffendedable.