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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

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARD

Attention Form God Spiritual
That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Anand Thakur
What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Anand Thakur
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Anand Thakur
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Anand Thakur
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
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Fact Injustice People Work

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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