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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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