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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

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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
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Enables
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Groups
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
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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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The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.
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He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend upon having a kingdom or government in any human sense, for it was literally a God government in which they were participants (Acts 1:6-8).
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The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21) how to possess without, like the rich young ruler, being possessed (Mark 10:22) how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
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When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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