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.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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