Sanctus Forum

"A very different way of living." If you'd like that, it is what the kingdom of God should make possible for us. Dallas Willard compares it to his family's new access to electricity and how that changed rural life. But the kingdom ought to change life in more radical ways than any technological advance. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Why doesn't the kingdom of God, if it is here, not seem to be all that pervasive? Dallas Willard's answer is that God has allowed other kingdoms to have a say in how the universe goes and of course the biggest opposition to God's kingdom is my kingdom. Michael Stewart Robb says this is where Teresa of Avila comes in who describes how we can walk with our initial connection to God into the other parts of our castle/kingdom. Not just our soul but the church can be a big opposition to God's kingdom. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Spirituality, as unhelpful as the word is as a general category, does seem to offer power to people. Jesus' spirituality is no different. Dallas Willard says Jesus' power is even at work when people reject the good you are trying to give them. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Author and theologian John Ortberg joins the host to discuss The Divine Conspiracy, focusing on important sections like personalism, the influence of genes, environment, and choices on personal development, recognizing our broken kingdoms and weak wills, and the concept of the Kingdom of God and its opposition. They also touch on the impact of communism and Acts chapter two.

Perhaps one of the most confusing things about Dallas Willard’s view of the kingdom of God is that Jesus didn’t start it and it wasn’t some eschatology before it’s time. The kingdom has been around as long as God has been around, says Willard. The kingdom is NOW. Welcome In! BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Dallas Willard’s understanding of the kingdom didn’t fit with other theologians. In The Divine Conspiracy he contrasts his view with a few others that have been proposed. In this episode we discuss five. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Anybody feel like what you are in charge of is astonishingly small? Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy teaches that God's intent is that our "kingdom" expand. God is the one very often who puts more in our hands. But even if our rule stays small in this life, he reminds us that this life is only the training ground for our rule in eternity. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Frank Laubach is one of the 20th century's great people who you don't know. And nobody knew him when he lived on an island in the Philippines and started experimenting with prayer and co-working with God. Now that is what he is most known for. His experiments and life were very influential on Dallas Willard who write about him in The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Your human job description - what is it? You were put here to be in charge and to be creative with what you were given, to do it with others and to do it with God. Yet we are far from this says Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute

Kingdoms as Dallas Willard philosophizes about them are everyday personal realities. You are aware of your kingdom every day of the week. And it's important to God's future for us that we have kingdoms or queendoms. C.S. Lewis got it right in Narnia. BE INFORMED and PRAY for us better by signing up for the Sanctus newsletter: https://sanctus.institute