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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

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Anand Thakur
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
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Burden Choice Disappointment Failure Life Right
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Anand Thakur
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
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
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Church Decision Fact God Problem
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
DALLAS WILLARD

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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