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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.

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Character Form God Production
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 idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Anand Thakur
Keep eternity before the children.
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Anand Thakur
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
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
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Anand Thakur
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Anand Thakur
We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Anand Thakur
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Anand Thakur
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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People Power Trust

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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