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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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