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.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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