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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
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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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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
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