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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

Dallas Willard

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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
We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Act Believe True
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
The 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.
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Anand Thakur
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Anand Thakur
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Anand Thakur
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
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Anand Thakur
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
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Easy Myself Obedience Way
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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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

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