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
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible. — 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
In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“...Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today... They were, instead, to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,… — 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
That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution… — 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
Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to… — 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
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive… — 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
A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess… — 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
![“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.” quote by Dallas Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/57f/dallas-willard-819_accomplish_in-thus-sending-out-his-trainees-jesus-s_2549607.jpg)
