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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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“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
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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
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
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
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God Love Ourselves
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Devotion Discipline God
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Earn Effort Grace

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