Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.
Dallas WillardDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
Dallas WillardRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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