The Divine Conspiracy
By Dallas Willard
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Is Jesus part of your daily life—here and now? Or, by failing to take him seriously, have you relegated him to the realm of the “hereafter”? Willard challenges you to enter into serious discipleship with Jesus now—and learn what it means to experience the Kingdom of God. 384 pages, hardcover from HarperCollins.
Dallas Willard, an acclaimed theologian and professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, fulfills the longing of many Christians who want to live as true disciples of Christ rather than distant dabblers. Likewise, he scoffs at consumer Christians who are simply banking on admittance to heaven as their payoff for attending church. Or worse still, those who use Christianity to advance their political agendas rather than their spiritual ones. But this is not a scolding book. Rather, Willard devotes his efforts to discussing specific and inspiring ways to develop a discipleship to Jesus–not as an act of sacrifice or even one of spiritual luxury–instead, as everyday people committed to the teachings of Christ. “The really good news for Christians is that Jesus is now taking students in the master class of life,” writes Willard. “So the message of and about him is specifically a gospel for our life now, not just for dying. It is about living now as his apprentices in kingdom living, not just as consumers of his merits.”
