There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
DALLAS WILLARDYou cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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