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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.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Around Assessment Change Come Committed Group Grow Learn People Real Spiritual Then Together Tool Vision Who Work You

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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Because Best Decisions God Guidance Life Like Making Making Decisions Many Obviously Often Out People Possible Relate Responsibility So Many People Thing Want Way Whole Word Would You

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What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Accept Atonement Basis Determine Die Essentially Forgiven Gospel Heaven Present Received Say Sins Theory Will You Your

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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Based Because Character Decisions Faith God Guide He Make May Obvious Us Wants Way

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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Anger Attendance Churches Contempt Counted Degree Easily Fundamental Giving Honesty Like Looking Many Measure Measuring More People Should Things Those Thumb Which Wrong Wrong Things

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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Character Education Everyone Formation Get Gets Just Like Matter Spiritual Which You

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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Beings Believe Bound Central Claim Core Defined Human Human Beings Know Love Primarily Rather Than Think Up Worship

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The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Aim Community Creation Glorious God Heart Himself History Loving Most Persons Prime Very

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Reality is what you can count on.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Count Reality You

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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Disciple Teacher You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 4th, 1935

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