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"Dallas Willard, the author of the bestselling spiritual classic, The Divine Conspiracy, now fulfills his revolutionary vision of how the kingdom of God is made real on earth in this sequel, the last book he was working on before his recent death. In The Divine Conspiracy, revered Christian philosopher and scholar Dallas Willard critiqued the church's obsession with ""sin management"" and revolutionized our understanding of true Christian discipleship. Jesus is not a remote savior, waiting to welcome us into heaven after we die, Willard argued. He is a dynamic living force, a leader and teacher to whom we apprentice ourselves to learn the sacred skills God wants us to embrace, and to fulfill His son's vision when Christ declared that the ""kingdom of God has come."" In The Divine Conspiracy Continued, co-written with theologian Gary Black, Willard lays out the next stage in God's plan as this generation of disciples, including ordained and lay leaders, step into positions of authority across our culture and begin to transform the world from the inside out. To fulfill the Christian calling is not to remove oneself from the outside world and take shelter from its shortcomings, Willard reminds us, but to step into the world to lead and serve as agents of change."

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Divine Conspiracy, [Willard s] most famous study, showed how a kingdom theology oriented Christians toward such a spiritual formation process of transformation into Christlikeness. . . . The Divine Conspiracy Continued takes his divine conspiracy theory into the public realm, [specifically] into the realm of leadership and influence. ----Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed

Divine Conspiracy, [Willard's] most famous study, showed how a kingdom theology oriented Christians toward such a spiritual formation process of transformation into Christlikeness. . . . The Divine Conspiracy Continued takes his divine conspiracy theory into the public realm, [specifically] into the realm of leadership and influence. ----Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed Dallas once said 'True social activists are those who live as apprentices of Jesus in their ordinary relationships.' While many try to change society by laws, Willard and Black illustrate that changing society requires leaders, in every area of life, to live a Christ-like life. --Ihab Beblawi, M.D. Helps us know better how leaders can mobilize as disciples of Christ to renew truth and justice within the modern world. Don't miss this book. --Greg Forster, author of Joy for the World A fantastic book ... a grand masterpiece for how to pursue and embrace personal transformation in order to be God's transforming agents in the world. These pages are filled with the great themes that call us to pursue and embrace the with-God life that is life indeed. --Gayle Beebe, President, Westmont College Willard and Black have given us a prophetic writing, so bold that if embraced and embodied might just produce a Christian community that actually is 'salt and light' to a world in desperate need of it! --Keith J. Matthews, Azusa Pacific University Willard and Black offer leaders a hopeful vision that steers the wobbly structures of this world onto the road of love, justice, and truth. --Richard Swenson, M.D., author of Margin For every follower of Christ who seeks to be a light in and through every vocational and professional arena of contemporary life. Willard and Black tell us all how we can live truly significant lives in God's Kingdom--now. --Bob Buford, author of Halftime and Drucker & Me The Divine Conspiracy shaped an entire generation. Now Willard and Black have turned their attention to leaders becoming Christ-like disciples instead of institutionalized church members . . . reshaping our thinking at an even wider and deeper level. --Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary I know of no more important voice on spiritual truth in our day than that of Dallas Willard. To be able to receive fresh words from him along with Gary Black on the reality of the kingdom in our midst is a priceless gift to every follower of Jesus. --John Ortberg, author of Who Is This Man? An invaluable resource that can help pastors enter more fully into their congregation's world and discover together the wisdom of Jesus and the way to real life. --Mike Lueken, coauthor of Renovation of the Church Good, new, surprising, and challenging ideas at every turn. --Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Pepperdine University School of Law For those of us who desire to influence the culture in a distinctively Christian way, this is must reading. --JP Moreland, author of The Kingdom Triangle I will return to [this book's] teachings again and again. May the Kingdom come! --Joseph Maciariello, The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University The name 'Dallas Willard' is one you hear a lot in our house. He's somewhere between a family member and a saint to us, as we've been so deeply, totally shaped by his words and ideas. I'm so thankful for this beautiful book. --Shauna Niequist, author of Bread & Wine I consider The Divine Conspiracy to be the most important book in the field of Christian spirituality written in my lifetime. In The Divine Conspiracy Continued Dallas Willard and Gary Black Jr. expand and enrich the themes that moved us so deeply. --Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline

An invaluable resource that can help pastors enter more fully into their congregation's world and discover together the wisdom of Jesus and the way to real life. --<b>Mike Lueken, coauthor of <i>Renovation of the Church</i></b>

Divine Conspiracy, [Willard's] most famous study, showed how a kingdom theology oriented Christians toward such a spiritual formation process of transformation into Christlikeness. . . . The Divine Conspiracy Continued takes his divine conspiracy theory into the public realm, [specifically] into the realm of leadership and influence. ----Scot McKnight, Jesus Creed

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Dallas Willard was a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Philosophy until his death in 2013. His groundbreaking books The Divine Conspiracy, The Great Omission, Knowing Christ Today, Hearing God, The Spirit of the Disciplines, Renovation of the Heart, and The Divine Conspiracy Continued forever changed the way thousands of Christians experience their faith. Gary Black Jr. is a professor of theology at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of The Theology of Dallas Willard, and coauthor of The Divine Conspiracy Continued.

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