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 WILLARDIt is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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 in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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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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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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