A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
DALLAS WILLARD“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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