Spiritual formation is not optional. Every thought you think, every emotion you let shape your behavior, every attitude you let rest in your body, every decision you make, each word you speak, every relationship you enter into, the habits that make up your days, whether or not you have social media (if you do, how you use it), how you respond to pain and suffering, how you handle failure or success—all these things and more are forming us into a particular shape.[8] Stasis is not on the menu. We are being either transformed into the love and beauty of Jesus or malformed by the entropy of sin
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