Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDIt 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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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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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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