If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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