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

by John Mark Comer

If disciple is something that is done to you (a verb),[25] then that puts the onus of responsibility for your spiritual formation on someone else, like your pastor, church, or mentor.

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us,”[51] because we become like our mental picture of God.

The opposite of contemplation is a life that is reactive—getting sucked into the tyranny of the urgent instead of the important, chasing the latest fad, wasting our fleeting lives climbing some illusory corporate ladder, hurrying from one distraction to the next…