It is narcissistic behaviour to demand that other people be sensitive to your emotional triggers. When your personal happiness is dependent on other people’s behaviour, it guarantees you’ll be chronically unhappy and always see yourself as a victim.
Responsibility
Christine Caine
Tag, we’re it. The baton of faith is in our hands. There’s no point waiting for the cavalry, we are ‘it.’ God has plucked us out of eternity, positioned us in time and commissioned us to share the good news of the Gospel to our generation. Most of us think that someone else can do it better than us. Someone else is more qualified than us. Someone else is more educated than us. Someone else is more charismatic than us. Someone else is more gifted than us. SURELY God wants to use someone else. Anyone else but me? The truth is God called you. God chose you. God sent you. And me.
Bill Johnson
Kevin Dedmon
Some of you may think your sphere of influence is not that important, but to God, and His purposes, taking responsibility for your “bean patch” is vital to the overall expansion of God’s Kingdom on earth during this season.
Hayley Braun
Lord do it in me first! Remove the limitations and labels from my mind and remove the impossibilities and hopelessness from my heart. Make me an instrument of your peace and reconciliation, attune my ears to your voice so that I can release with authority what you are longing to be seen.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ’s large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real sympathy that springs, not from fear, but from the liberating and redeeming love of Christ for all who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behaviour. The Christian is called to sympathy and action, not in the first place by his own sufferings, but by the sufferings of his brethren, for whose sake Christ suffered.
Seth Dahl
It is no one else’s responsibility to avoid my triggers. It is not the government’s responsibility to redesign the nation so I don’t get triggered. It is not a business’s job to make sure they don’t say anything that triggers me. It’s not my spouses’ responsibility to walk on eggshells so I don’t blow up. It’s not my kid’s responsibility to behave in such a way I don’t go off on them. It’s my responsibility to make sure I don’t have bullets loaded in my heart so no matter what happens around me I respond in a healthy way.
Damon Thompson
March 9, 2020
The answer for a nation in moral recession is a burning church, and the answer for a church that’s not burning is a burning man.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
December 16, 2019
Sometimes I think of life as a big wagon wheel with many spokes. In the middle is the hub. Often in ministry, it looks like we are running around the rim trying to reach everybody. But God says, “Start in the hub; live in the hub. Then you will be connected with all the spokes, and you won’t have to run so fast.”
Henry Cloud
Ownership empowers us to act – to use our various skills to make plans, tackle a hurtful situation, or right a wrong. People who “own” their problems are people who can take initiative. The jobless man goes on executive search interviews. The unhappy wife seeks help, whether or not her husband is interested. Ownership also gives us freedom. You are no longer a slave to this past, to false hope, to wishing someone would change, or to discourage and passivity. You are free to try out answers, take risks and take steps.