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And yet the life that we are promised in Christ should be one of spiritual maturity and increasing holiness. We should be light and salt to a dark and flavourless world. We should be brimful of the fruit of the Spirit. So, why the yawning chasm between what we are and what we should be?
When around half of marriages fail, when there are massive problems with addiction, when our leaders are moral failures, when there is war and world famine, who can we blame? Only ourselves, says Dallas Willard. We live from the heart - the spiritual place within us from which outlook, choices and actions have been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed.
With piercing cultural analysis Dallas Willard shows how the spirit of the age has blinded Christian people to the truth of their moral responsibilities. He presents a radical challenge to be transformed to the likeness of Christ in every dimension of life - thought, emotion, character, soul and body. Drawing on biblical and practical resources he explores the spiritual disciplines that are crucial if, by the grace of God, we hope to acquire renovated hearts.
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Following on his three previous volumes on Hearing God, the Spiritual Disciples and the wonderful exposition of the sermon on the mount in the Divine Conspiracy, he has turned his attention with great eloquence to to the heart of the matter, 'renovation'
Sensuality through the body is all that is left under our kingdom, if we are not living under the great drama of goodness in God’s kingdom
The book is all about a revolution of character; which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is not an impossible dream or ideal to be gazed at with wonder but an actual practical and realistic way of living.
It is suggested that, all ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations, are capable fo transformation.
Dallas Willard sees transformation of the heart as a life long project to be lived minute by minute every day. He argues that it should not surprise that many people fail to hold fast to their Christian calling today. Many are under the impression they are to the seek to do what Jesus would do in the moment of a particualr decision or situation. This is doomed to failure are transformation is a mater of the whole of our lives, not just from crisis to crisis.
He posits that a much more helpful question would be to ask
" How would Jesus live my life if he were me today?"
I believe this book will mightily repay careful study, if read slowly and making use of the helpful questions with which each chapter ends,
The languages is sometimes quaint and perhaps a little verbose, but the heart and sprit of the author shine through every page.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I suggest obtain the NavPress edition. The paperback edition in U.K. appears to have omitted chapter 13 on Spiritual Formation in the Local Congregation.
This book is exceptional. For anyone who wants to grow as a disciple and become more like Jesus rather than remain a convert only, this book is one to savour and re-read, there's so much spiritual common-sense in it.
This book is about putting on the character of Christ. It touches on some of the most vital areas for spiritual growth such as transforming our thought life, emotions and our will.
Written by a scholar and dedicated Christian he brings insight and scholarly light into a crucial area of the Christian life. It is a very easy read avoiding all technical jargon. Every Christian practitioner and preacher should read this book.
I take just one quote from the book to give you a flavour of what to expect.
"Our feelings are not directly under the control of our will, but they can be directed by our thoughts".
Dallas Willard does not just quote facts and sound bites at you but rather he takes the effort to explain them.
Highly recommended read.
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