The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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