John Ortberg
John Ortberg
John Ortberg, Jr.is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California, an evangelical church with more than 4,000 members. Ortberg has published many books including the 2008 ECPA Christian Book Award winner When the Game is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, and the 2002 Christianity Today Book Award winner If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat. Another of his publications,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 May 1957
CountryUnited States of America
A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.
Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.
Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.