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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Dallas Willard

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Anand Thakur
When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Anand Thakur
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Anand Thakur
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Anand Thakur
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

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