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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Dallas Willard

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Anand Thakur
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
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
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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Fact Injustice People Work
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
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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Choice God Life Myself Style
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARD

Built God Habitat Live Natural
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

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