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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Anand Thakur
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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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