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

by John Mark Comer

For those of us who desire to follow Jesus, here is the reality we must turn and face: 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.[6]

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

“you become what you contemplate,”

To “remind yourself that you are going to die” is to remind yourself to live for your eulogy, not your résumé. It’s to not waste your precious, fleeting time here but to focus on what matters in the grand scheme of eternity—becoming a person of love through union with Jesus.

We are little more than the cumulative effect of our regular habits. What we repeatedly do, we become.

The things we do, do something to us; they get into the core of our being and shape our loves and longings.

The professor Craig Dykstra of Duke Divinity School once said, “The life of the Christian faith is the practice of many practices.”[21]