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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
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
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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 are becoming who we will be-forever.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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