Learning to follow Christ deepens our purpose for living and deepens our awareness that we need relationships which help us follow Him. So many in our world will distract us from a deeper walk with Him, creating more dysfunction than could be imagined. I pray that you and I build friends that encourage us in our walk with Christ, but that we become effective in discipling others to be like Christ. Obeying Him counters the dysfunction around us. Loving God with our whole self, mind, body, emotions, and spirit, makes us even more whole, changing our identity as a follower of Christ.
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
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