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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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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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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