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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

Dallas Willard

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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Definition Human Love Thinking
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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Anand Thakur
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
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
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

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