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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

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Fact Injustice People Work
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
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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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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