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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.

Dallas Willard

We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
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 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
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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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
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 disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Fact Injustice People Work
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
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Anand Thakur
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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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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