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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

“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Built God Habitat Live Natural
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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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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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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Act Believe True
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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Choice God Life Myself Style
It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Difficult Hurt Right
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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