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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.

Dallas Willard

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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
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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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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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