God is turning the tin man into a real man, and the part that doesn’t like it is the part that is still tin.
-Dallas Willard, the Divine Conspiracy
God is turning the tin man into a real man, and the part that doesn’t like it is the part that is still tin. -Dallas Willard, the Divine Conspiracy
God is turning the tin man into a real man, and the part that doesn’t like it is the part that is still tin.
-Dallas Willard, the Divine Conspiracy
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. – G.K. Chesterton
I turned on the radio long enough to hear an advertisement for a tape series on how to live a Biblically based world view, and I thought wow! Is that the goal now? And, turned off my radio. Isn’t that what the Pharisees that crucified Jesus were working on?!

From The Trouble With Grace by Keith Hueftle Under orders, and with confidence in the person’s authority giving the orders, you might expect to do such a bizarre, inane thing. But this is not a call to presumption. Jesus is not asking to work up a so-called “faith” – self-generated – in order to make…
“In Hebrew, that is kha-ta’ ‚Äì what we call “sin,” our world-wide, pervasive proclivity to mess up. We often hear it defined as “missing the mark” as though our trouble is just a matter of not being perfect enough (nowhere in Scripture does it say that!). An arrow that goes shy of the bull’s eye….
The second duty of authority is to seek to reclaim the wrongdoer. Any authority which is solely concerned with punishment is wrong; any authority which, in its exercise, drives a wrongdoer either to despair or to resentment is a failure. The function of authority is not to banish sinners from all decent society, still less…
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God has made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. From p. 114, Velvet Elvis, by Rob Bell