It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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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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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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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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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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