The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Anand Thakur
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’s address is at the end of your rope.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDAt the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDEvery church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
DALLAS WILLARDHuman 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhy 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 WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDThe aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
DALLAS WILLARDTheology 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.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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