Tag Archives: Dallas Willard

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What does real trust look like?

I think this is as true as it is convicting…

“Trusting Christ does not take the form of merely believing things about him. Moreover, knowing the “right answers” does not mean we truly believe them. To believe them means we are set to act as if these “right answers” are true. Perhaps the hardest thing for sincere Christians to come to grips with is the level of real unbelief in their own lives: the unformulated skepticism about Jesus that permeates all dimensions of their being and undermines the efforts they do make toward Christlikeness.”—Dallas Willard & Jan Johnson

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“Freedom” and what we allow access to our minds

What we think about matters greatly. We cannot be too intentional about what we dwell upon. I came across a quote by Dallas Willard, in Renovation of the Heart, that is perceptive.

“Our present American culture boasts of complete freedom in what one sees, says, and hears. Many professing Christians are paralyzed or even destroyed by adopting “freedom” as a lifestyle. For they allow images into their that eventually overwhelm them. If we allow everything access to your mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil and bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.”

A good word…

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Life to the Limit

One of my favorite authors is Dallas Willard. He has an uncommon ability to articulate concepts in a way that helps you connect with them. In his book The Divine Conspiracy, he reflects on what it means when Jesus says I have come so that you might have life (John 10:10):

Jesus offers himself as God’s doorway into 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 through 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 might have life, and life to the limit.”