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
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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Make 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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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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