Keep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDThe union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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