ECPA 2019 Christian Book Award Finalist 2018 Foreword INDIES Book
of the Year Award Finalists - Biography Dallas Willard was a
personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors,
philosophers, and average churchgoers. His presence and ideas
rippled through the lives of many prominent leaders and authors,
such as John Ortberg, Richard Foster, James Bryan Smith, Paula
Huston, and J. P. Moreland. As a result of these relationships and
the books he wrote, he fundamentally altered the way tens of
thousands of Christians have understood and experienced the
spiritual life. Whether great or small, everyone who met Dallas was
impressed by his personal attention, his calm confidence, his
wisdom, and his profound sense of the spiritual. But he was not
always the man who lived on a different plane of reality than so
many of the rest of us. He was someone who had to learn to be a
husband, a parent, a teacher, a Christ follower. The journey was
not an easy one. He absorbed some of the harshest and most unfair
blows life can land. His mother died when he was two, and after his
father remarried he was exiled from his stepmother's home. Growing
up in Depression-era, rural Missouri and educated in a one-room
schoolhouse, he knew poverty, deprivation, anxiety, self-doubt, and
depression. Though the pews he sat in during his early years were
not offering much by way of love and mercy, Dallas, instead of
turning away, kept looking for the company of a living, present,
and personal God. In Gary W. Moon's candid and inspiring biography,
we read how Willard became the person who mentored and partnered
with his young pastor, Richard Foster, to inspire some of the most
influential books on spirituality of the last generation. We see
how his love of learning took him on to Baylor, the University of
Wisconsin, and the University of Southern California, where he
became a beloved professor and one of the most versatile members of
the philosophy department. The life of Dallas Willard deserves
attention because he became a person who himself experienced
authentic transformation of life and character. Dallas Willard not
only taught about spiritual disciplines, he became a different
person because of them. He became a grounded person, a spiritually
alive person as he put them into practice, finding God, as he often
said, "at the end of his rope." Here is a life that gives us all
hope.
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