Renovated: God, Dallas Willard and the Church that transforms

Christianity has tended to focus on right beliefs and right choices as the keys for personal growth. But biblical evidence and modern brain science show that our character is shaped more by whom we love than what we believe.

In Renovated, Jim Wilder explores conversations with Dallas Willard from their Heart & Soul Conference shortly before Dallas’s death, showing how we can train our brains to relate to God based on joyful, mutual attachment—which leads to emotional and spiritual maturity as our identity and character are formed by our relationship with God.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Salvation Is a New Attachment - Jim
Spiritual and Emotional Maturity - Dallas
Thinking with God - Jim
Components of the Human Person - Dallas
Neuroscience and Developing Character - Jim
Spiritual Formation toward Wholeness in Christ - Dallas
Transformed by Loving Attachment - Jim
Disciplines for Transformation - Dallas
The Science of Spiritual Maturity - Jim
The Church That Transforms - Jim

Conclusion: Taking Dallas Deeper

Appendix A: Ideas for Hesed Attachment at Church

Appendix B: Relational Resources