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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

Dallas Willard

The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Anand Thakur
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
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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Anand Thakur
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Anand Thakur
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
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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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk

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