The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
DALLAS WILLARDThe Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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