The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“It also explains why the gospel of the kingdom has such transforming power in human life. For that gospel opens the kingdom… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But Jesus’ own gospel of the kingdom was not that the kingdom was about to come, or had recently come, into existence.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“the governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be “Christians” forever and never become disciples.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Who, among Christians today, is a disciple of Jesus, in any substantive sense of the word “disciple”? A disciple is a learner,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“I routinely watched Dallas, like no one I had encountered before or since, wipe clean people’s vision of who God was, what… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“In the Gospels, by contrast, “the gospel” is the good news of the presence and availability of life in the kingdom, now… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in our “putting… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in actual fact… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the “glory of the Lord”… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
