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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.

Dallas Willard

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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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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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