Here’s a mostly unpublished quotation from Dallas Willard on spiritual formation that my friend, Bob Howey, shared with me a couple of years ago. Thought it was worth the revisit today:
“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant. Such a community lives under the immediate and total rulership of the Holy Spirit. They are a people blinded to all other loyalties by the splendor of God, a compassionate community embodying the law of love as seen in Jesus Christ…They are an obedient army of the Lamb of God living under the Spiritual Disciplines, a community in the process of total transformation from the inside out, a people determined to live out the demands of the gospel in a secular world. They are tenderly aggressive, meekly powerful, suffering, and overcoming. Such a community, cast in the rare and apostolic mold, constitutes a new gathering of the people of God. May God almighty continue to gather such people in our day.” Dallas Willard books
(A portion of this quotation is quoted in Richard Foster’s Prayer on page 254 as being part of an unpublished study guide for the book of Acts. At least a portion of it appears to be included in the notes of the Renovaré Study Bible.)
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