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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
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Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Value
Creation
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History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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When we think of taking Christ into the workplace or keeping Christ in the home, we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The specialness of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.
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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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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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