THE GREAT OMISSION
Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship
DALLAS WILLARD
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the great omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Willard, Dallas.
The great omission: reclaiming Jesus’s essential teachings on discipleship / Dallas Willard.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-088243-3
Cover painting: Natural History Museum, London / Bridgeman Art Library
A true apprentice of Jesus Who has blessed all she has touched—Grace and truth through and through
Contents
Chapter 2: Why Bother with Discipleship?
Chapter 3: Who Is Your Teacher?
Chapter 5: The Key to the Keys to the Kingdom
Chapter 6: Spiritual Formation in Christ Is for the Whole Life and the Whole Person
Spiritual Formation and the Development of Character
Chapter 7: Spiritual Formation in Christ
Chapter 8: The Spirit Is Willing, But …
Chapter 9: Living in the Vision of God
Chapter 10: Idaho Springs Inquiries Concerning Spiritual Formation
Chapter 11: Personal Soul Care
Chapter 12: Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Formation, and the Restoration of the Soul
Discipleship of the Soul and the Mind
Chapter 13: Christ-Centered Piety
Chapter 15: Jesus the Logician
Chapter 16: Letters by a Modern Mystic by Frank C. Laubach
Books on Spiritual Living: Visions and Practices
Chapter 17: The Interior Castle of Teresa of Avila
Chapter 18: Invitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley Barton
Chapter 20: A Room of Marvels by James B. Smith
Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let Earth receive her King! Let every heart, prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing!” So sings the grand old Christmas carol, with the implication that now, with the coming of Jesus into our world and our lives, things are going to be really different. And that theme is sustained through the ages up to the present. No knowledgeable person can think anything else. Transformation into goodness is what the “Good News” is all about … isn’t it?
But there is a great deal of disappointment expressed today about the character and the effects of Christian people, about Christian institutions, and—at least ...
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About The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship
The last command Jesus gave the church before he ascended to heaven was the Great Commission, the call for Christians to "make disciples of all the nations." But Christians have responded by making "Christians," not "disciples." This, according to brilliant scholar and renowned Christian thinker Dallas Willard, has been the church's Great Omission. |
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