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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

Dallas Willard

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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Church Decision Fact God Problem
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit
Keep eternity before the children.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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
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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

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