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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

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
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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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
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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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
“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
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
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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 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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
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

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