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The will is transformed by experience, not information.

Dallas Willard

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Anand Thakur
The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Large Personal Relation Social Transformation World
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Character Children Final
$Dallas Willard Quote - Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.$

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
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
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
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
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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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Attention Form God Spiritual
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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

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