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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

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
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Anand Thakur
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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
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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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Anand Thakur
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Anand Thakur
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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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Anand Thakur
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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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
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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Education Form Oneself Spiritual

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