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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

Dallas Willard

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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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
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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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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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Anand Thakur
“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
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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Anand Thakur
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Anand Thakur

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

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