![]() I had grown up in an Evangelical Christian home, I had faith in Jesus, but what I didnt have was a sense of how Jesus life connected to the practical problems I faced in my day-to-day existence. Opening Willards book, I read: The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said. In that sentence, I felt, was my diagnosis. And I remember how, in the midst of that turmoil, I wanted to learn to pray, to be still, to seek a quiet center (in the jargon of much spiritual writing and reflection)”and, ultimately, to be transformed in such a way that those youthful fits of rage wouldnt rule my life anymore. I remember surges of anger”the kind of thing that, looking back, one attributes to adolescent hormones but, at the time, feels remarkably like losing control of your personality. Like many young men my age, I was unsteady, restless, volatile. ![]() ![]() I cant recall now what made me pick up a copy, but I knew soon thereafter that Id found a book that would prove to be a milestone in my spiritual and theological pilgrimage. When Dallas Willards magnum opus, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God, came out in 1998, I was a junior in high school.
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