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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

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Live Opposite Yourself
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
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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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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
God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
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
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

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