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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.

Dallas Willard

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Anand Thakur
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Angry Ego Embrace Person Wound
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Beginning Fulfillment Mindset Shame Subtle Talk
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
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
It’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.
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Church Greatness Simplicity Struggle Talk
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Anand Thakur
“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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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Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Anand Thakur
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Anand Thakur
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right

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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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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