You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDWe live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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