Dallas Willard: Embracing the Lord in Obedience
We see a similar pattern to that of Bernard’s teaching on the three embraces in what scholar Dallas Willard refers to as a “process” of discipleship. He teaches a process that includes delighting in God (adoration), being freed from enslavement to old anti-kingdom habitual patterns (repentance), and doing what one hears from Jesus (obedience). Willard expands upon the important teaching of the life of obedience to the Lord:
The abundance of life realized through apprenticeship to Jesus . . . naturally leads to obedience. The teaching we have received and our experience of living with it brings us to love Jesus and the Father with our whole being . . . And so we love to obey him, even where we do not yet understand or, really, ‘like’ what that requires . . . Love of Jesus sustains us through the course of discipline and training that makes obedience possible. Without that love, we will not stay to learn. . . . Gal. 5:22 [describes] the ‘fruit of the Spirit’ because they are not direct effects of our efforts but are brought about in us as we admire and emulate Jesus and do whatever is necessary to learn how to obey him.[1]
[1] Willard, The Divine Conspiracy, 368.
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