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

by John Mark Comer

The question isn’t, Am I a disciple? It’s, Who or what am I a disciple of?

Is the life I’m living the life I most deeply desire? Is this it?

If you plot the trajectory of your life over the next five decades and envision yourself at seventy, eighty, or a hundred, what kind of person do you see on the horizon? Does the projection in your mind fill you with hope? Or dread?

Hope. I am filled with hope for the future because God has a plan for me.

If we’re not being intentionally formed by Jesus himself, then it’s highly likely we are being unintentionally formed by someone or something else.

“There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.”

Disciple is a noun, not a verb

But if disciple is a noun—if it’s someone you are or are not—then

Jesus is not looking for converts to Christianity; he’s looking for apprentices in the kingdom of God.

For Jesus, salvation is less about getting you into heaven and more about getting heaven into you.

I love this. Changed my perspective

It’s not just about what he has done for us but also about what he has done, is doing, and will do in us if we apprentice under him.

Christianity is more than a theory about the universe, more than teachings written down on paper; it is a path along which we journey—in the deepest and richest sense, the way of life.

Before they believed in Jesus, he believed in them.

It’s possible—all of it. But it’s not inevitable. It won’t just happen by chance. There are no accidental saints.

Jesus invites WHOEVER to follow him but they must choose to follow him. We must CHOOSE a life with Jesus