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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

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
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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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
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Anand Thakur
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
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
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
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

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.

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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.

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