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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

Dallas Willard

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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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Fact Injustice People Work
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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Anand Thakur
When 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.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Anand Thakur
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Anand Thakur
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
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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Anand Thakur

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

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