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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

Dallas Willard

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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Evidence Help People Right
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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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Answer Believe Right True
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

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