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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.

Dallas Willard

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
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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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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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
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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Anand Thakur
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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