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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

Dallas Willard

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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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
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
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
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 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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Anand Thakur
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Anand Thakur
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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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
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
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise

Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.

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