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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 we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
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
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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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