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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

Dallas Willard

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Anand Thakur
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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Goodness Kind People Thinking
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
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
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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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Anand Thakur
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
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Anand Thakur
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Anand Thakur

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

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