Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Anand Thakur
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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 more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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