Discipline is a means to an end—to be with Jesus, become like him, and do what he did. The psychologist Rich Plass put it this way in The Relational Soul, “Spiritual disciplines are not an end in themselves. They are means to an end….Disciplines set the soul on the path where it can come to know God and live present to others in love.”[26] Follow their logic—it’s spot on: Disciplines are the path, not the destination.
