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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

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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
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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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Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.
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We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about saving our soul.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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 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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Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.
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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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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