The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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