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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

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Anand Thakur
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Hungry Morning People Rise
Human 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.
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Definition Human Love Thinking
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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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
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Anand Thakur
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Clever God Thinking Way
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Forgiveness Grace Life
That’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.
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Anand Thakur
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
Bodily 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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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
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

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.
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Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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?

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