The Hellands in Holland

Quotes and ideas from Dallas Willard's Renovation of the Heart. Dallas Willard is a Christian philosopher who at times is hard to read, yet well worth it when you give it a try. This evening a few of us will be gathering at a local library in Amsterdam to discuss the ideas from this book. Here I have written out some of the main points from each chapter. This book is all about people's lives being changed and that is ultimately what my job should be all about. Seeing people's lives changed through a relationship with Christ. Chapter 1 …the situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our “spiritual” side (14). The greatest need of collective humanity is renovation of the heart. The impotence of “systems” is a main reason why Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today, which always strongly convery some elements of a human system. They were instead, to establish bea