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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.

Dallas Willard

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
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
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
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
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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Goodness Kind People Thinking
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves

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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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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