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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?

Dallas Willard

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Anand Thakur
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Anand Thakur
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
“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
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Anand Thakur
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
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
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
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
I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Anand Thakur

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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