Focus on character first

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I thought about calling this post, “Why ‘do more better’ is killing you,” but I didn’t want y’all to confuse that with Tim Challies’ book on productivity. Rather than productivity, I’m thinking our tendency to focus on behavior modification. Whether as parents or preachers, it’s really easy to slide into a “do this, don’t do that” mentality. If we give people three easy steps to follow, they’ll live a godlier life. If we just tell our kids enough times to stop hitting one another (which is n...