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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.

Dallas Willard

We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Anand Thakur
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Anand Thakur
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Anand Thakur
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Anand Thakur
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
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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

Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset

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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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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