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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

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production
“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
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
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
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
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
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
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Anand Thakur
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
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
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
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

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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