Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

by Dallas Willard

Paperback, 2012

Status

Available

Collection

SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Description

Renovation of the Heart is an influential contribution from the late Dallas Willard that continues to break ground twenty years after its first release. Helping us to understand how character is formed and where Jesus does his most significant work on our spiritual and emotional health, this book changed a generation's mind about what it means to follow Jesus-not a matter of sin management but a matter of drawing near and letting ourselves be shaped into the eternal people of God. With reflections on the book's impact over its life from family, friends, and admirers of Dallas, and supplemental resources for the first time in print, Renovation of the Heart will continue its ministry of liberation-by-formation for years to come. Includes a foreword by John Mark Comer and an afterword by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson.… (more)

Tags

SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Publication

NavPress (2012), Edition: 10th Anniversary ed., 272 pages

Awards

Christianity Today Book Awards (Spirituality — 2003)

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(128 ratings; 4.1)

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LibraryThing member DannyMorris
Rich with insight and practical implementation. But Willard does not write well
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LibraryThing member GwG
An excellent practical outworking of Willard's Kingdom insight found in The Divine Conspiracy.
LibraryThing member MissyHiett
This book is very difficult for me. It seems as though it challenged my brain. I read to chapter 5 and started over and took notes and I got a couple of things. First, as Christians we do need a 'Renovation of the Heart.'. God is love. As God works in us it's to cultivate love within our heart. The
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 way to change is told by the acronym VIM - Vision, Intent, and Means. I find myself stuck on Intent. It's been said (perhaps in this book,I can't put my finger on it) that it's hard to want to change. We don't change because we don't want to. We don't have vision, and if we do, forming the intent can be stymied by fear, unrepented sin...just things that block us from God. God doesn't want us to think about what Jesus would do and do it. He wants us to observe Jesus' life and use his example to live out the life God has planned for us.

I really liked when he talked at the end about church. We adhere to the creeds. Music, pews, offering, sermon, the building, the trappings can all be thrown out. They aren't described in the bible. Of course these things make a service meaningful, but not on the level of absolutes.
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LibraryThing member HGButchWalker
Good overall discussion of the various parts that are involved in bringing about change in the hearts of men - our own hearts and others. My only complaint is that it tended to lean a little too much on secular psychology rather than being based primarily in Scripture. Still, his conclusions seem
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 largely consistent with Scripture and, I think, the result is helpful.
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LibraryThing member wvlibrarydude
I decided to read this book after reading Relentless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer. I have already determined that this will be a regular book to revisit, and to determine what my next steps in my spiritual journey will be, as I adopt the VIM method. I cannot begin to describe the changes
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 I've already made in my daily walk just from reading this book over the last few weeks. Do you really desire to be a disciple of Christ? Read this book.
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