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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.
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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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What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.
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Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
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In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. Those who come though me will be safe, he said. They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest
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Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider how we have been approaching our life, in light of the fact that we now, in the presence of Jesus, have the option of living within the surrounding movements of God's eternal purposes, of taking our life into his life.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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