“You will rarely meet an individual Christian who is seriously engaged in the transformation (spiritual formation) depicted in the Bible and in Church History, or who even has a hope for anything like it this side of heaven. And while you might think that Christian organizations would have such transformation as their central focus, that simply turns out not to be true. They are doing something else.”
–Dallas Willard
Why is this the case? Well, according to Dallas Willard, the issue was in large part due to common misconceptions about salvation (i.e. soteriology) that, in his words, pose “almost insurmountable barriers to (trans)formation of professing Christians into Christlikeness.”
As a corrective to this misconception, Willard’s own soteriology saw formation into Christlikeness as both part and parcel of salvation.
Listen as Willard unpacks his view of salvation in a lecture aptly titled, “Spiritual Formation as a Natural Part of Salvation.”
Michael Di Fuccia, on behalf of the Editorial Team