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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Earning
Opposed
Grace
Effort

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Grace is not opposed to effort it's opposed to earning.
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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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We're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.
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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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It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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