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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
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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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It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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 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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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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 core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
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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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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
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There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.
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