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

Dallas Willard

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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Definition Human Love Thinking
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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
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
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
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
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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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