As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Anand Thakur
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDThis life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
DALLAS WILLARDThat’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDAlmost 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.
DALLAS WILLARDOne does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDBusiness is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat 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.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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