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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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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
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Dallas Albert Willard
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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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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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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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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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The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.
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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
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Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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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The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
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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're not here to prove we're right we're here to help people.
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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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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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