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The most constant “whim,” historically, has been the disastrous idea just mentioned: that Jesus is here giving laws. For if that is all he is doing, they will certainly be laws that are impossible to keep. The keeping of law turns out to be an inherently self-refuting aim; rather, the inner self must be changed. Trying merely to keep the law is not wholly unlike trying to make an apple tree bear peaches by tying peaches to its branches.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
Jesus doesn’t use a superhuman advantage to win; he refuses the inhumanity we all participate in.
The Pursuing God
Joshua Ryan Butler
We live in a post-institutional age. Our danger is not to look to institutions to save us, but rather to look to ourselves to save us.
Disappearing Church
Mark Sayers
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