Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1022258 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

Where you put your mind is your first freedom.
Dallas Willard has done it again.
Following on his three previous volumes on Hearing God, the Spiritual Disciples and the wonderful exposition of the sermon on the mount in the Divine Conspiracy, he has turned his attention with great eloquence to to the heart of the matter, 'renovation'
Sensuality through the body is all that is left under our kingdom, if we are not living under the great drama of goodness in God’s kingdom
The book is all about a revolution of character; which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is not an impossible dream or ideal to be gazed at with wonder but an actual practical and realistic way of living.
It is suggested that, all ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations, are capable fo transformation.

Dallas Willard sees transformation of the heart as a life long project to be lived minute by minute every day. He argues that it should not surprise that many people fail to hold fast to their Christian calling today. Many are under the impression they are to the seek to do what Jesus would do in the moment of a particualr decision or situation. This is doomed to failure are transformation is a mater of the whole of our lives, not just from crisis to crisis.
He posits that a much more helpful question would be to ask
" How would Jesus live my life if he were me today?"

I believe this book will mightily repay careful study, if read slowly and making use of the helpful questions with which each chapter ends,
The languages is sometimes quaint and perhaps a little verbose, but the heart and sprit of the author shine through every page.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I suggest obtain the NavPress edition. The paperback edition in U.K. appears to have omitted chapter 13 on Spiritual Formation in the Local Congregation.

re Philip Noble's Review
Re. the last chapter in the NavPress edition of this book being missing in the IVP edition, it is there but has become the first chapter!

This book is exceptional. For anyone who wants to grow as a disciple and become more like Jesus rather than remain a convert only, this book is one to savour and re-read, there's so much spiritual common-sense in it.

Renovation of the Heart
'The person with a well-kept heart is one who is prepared for, and able to respond to the situations of life in ways that are good and right.' This is a thoughtful and deeply challenging book on what it means to pursue and experience a transformed life, a life that can only be transformed by Christ. Highly recommended!