Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDEven 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.
DALLAS WILLARDEvery church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
DALLAS WILLARDWhy 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.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDBelief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
DALLAS WILLARDMake 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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