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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Dallas Willard

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
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
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
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

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