WELCOME TO MENS LIFE 2019-2020 Carl Hofmann Teaching Leader - PDF document

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1/28/2020 “Feelings are, with few exceptions, good servants. But they are disastrous masters”. - Dallas Willard (p.122) “In the modern condition, feeling will come to exercise almost total mastery over the individual. This is because people in that condition will have to constantly decide what they want to do, and feeling will be all they have to go on. Here lies the secret to understanding contemporary Western life and it’s peculiar proneness to gross immoralities and addictions…” 3

1/28/2020 “People are overwhelmed with decisions and can only make those decisions on the basis of feelings.” - Dallas Willard, p. 126 I immediately regret this decision! 4

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1/28/2020 “Those who let God be God get off the conveyor belt of emotion and desire when it first starts to move toward the buzz saw of sin. They do not wait until it’s moving so fast they cannot get off of it. Their aim is not to avoid sin, but to avoid temptation – the inclination to sin. They plan their path accordingly.” - Dallas Willard, p. 119 7

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