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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

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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Basis Care Nation Understand
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
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
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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Call Death Lose Time World
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
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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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
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
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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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
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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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
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
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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