Our spiritual life is also subject to our getting locked into details and missing what is important. How often do we lose God’s perspective? The Pharisees were taking houses from widows[3] but tithing their mint and dill. Jesus said to them, “You . . . have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.”[4] When we use the fast track, we can keep perspective; when we use the slow track, we only measure a tithe of our cumin. Disciples do not simply determine priorities for
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