My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Anand Thakur
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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