![]() What is our everyday life? Put it in other questions. “This evening, we are going to be laying a foundation by talking about the presence of God in our life. In his introduction to this talk, you will hear Dallas as he lays the foundation for practicing the presence of God. Nouwen, Willard, the Early Church, and devotion masters through the centuries held many views in common, especially when the subject was “Practicing the Presence of God in Everyday Life.” (4/5) Dallas Willard was just that type of person. From God and You: Person to Person: Developing a Daily Personal Relationship with Jesus, by Anthony M. They will say, ‘I want to get close to this person who is so full of God.’” If your faith is personal, it will be contagiously real. If you are burning with the love of Jesus, don’t worry-everyone will know. A lot of people are always concerned about: ‘How can I help people? … Or preach well?’ But these are all basically nonissues. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God. Henri Nouwen once told a gathering of ministers: “Ministry is the least important thing. In Chapter 13, “Ideas that matter for time and eternity,” you will find a discussion of these critical concerns. In short, he understood that Jesus is still in the business of making apprentices the same way he did 2,000 years ago. For a more complete description of Dallas Willard’s four “critical concerns” see Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher and Christ Follower. And he believed we human beings are uniquely designed to be aware of this Presence, and further, that we can know, learn from and interact with this reality on an ongoing basis.ĭallas also believed that it is precisely these types of living interactions that produce real and measurable change-authentic transformation. To put it very simply, Dallas believed that invisible things such as the Trinity, the Kingdom of God, and the risen Christ are very much real, and present in the here and now-as real as the “energy” and “matter” that you find in tables, chairs and the atoms that form them. In many ways it provides a summary of the four key ideas that drove most of Willard’s writing and teaching through the course of his career-or “careen” as he sometimes described it. The talk you are about to hear-either in its entirety or in parts-is very central to the teaching of Dallas Willard. ![]() Much later, when Dallas’ time of earth-life drew to an early close, it was Trevor who was chosen to fill Dallas’ central teaching role in the Renovaré Institute. Willard visited South Africa several times-every time Trevor asked. Over time, Trevor and Dallas established a lasting friendship. These messages soon found their way into Trevor’s heart and onto the pages of The Spirit of the Disciplines. ![]() ![]() During a time of prolonged illness, a friend had given Trevor copies of cassette tapes of a few of Willard’s talks. Dallas Willard didn’t say that, but the statement captures the heart of a series of talks he delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa, over three decades ago.ĭallas had been asked to come to South Africa by Trevor Hudson, a young minister who had learned about Dallas in 1985. If it does not become personal, it will not be real.” From God and You: Person to Person: Developing a Daily Personal Relationship with Jesus, by Anthony M. “For anything to become real it has to be personal. ![]()
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