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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.

Dallas Willard

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
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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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
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
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
It’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.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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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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Act Believe True
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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Basis Care Nation Understand
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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