Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

by John Mark Comer

show me a person’s habits, and I will show you what they are truly most passionate about, most dedicated to, most willing to suffer for, and most in love with. And I will show you who they will become.

Henri Nouwen once said, bluntly but accurately, Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life.[63]

Regent College professor James Houston often said, “Spiritual formation is the slowest of all human movements.”

because at the core of what’s broken in the human condition is ruined relationships—with both God and people. Love has been shattered by the fall.

Saint Teresa of Avila put it, Christ has no body on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassionately on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours![66]