Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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.
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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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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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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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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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