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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 Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Anand Thakur
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
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Anand Thakur
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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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
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
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Anand Thakur

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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