The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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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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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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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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