Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

by Jordan Raynor

Disciplining yourself to delay responses to all opportunities helps avoid this mistake.

“It is kindness to refuse immediately what you eventually intend to deny.”

We’re called to reflect Jesus by being purposeful, present, and wildly productive. In short, we’re called to redeem our time.

As Christ followers, we don’t run through life “in an aimless fashion.”

Discipline is a by-product of a Spirit-filled, Christlike life.

First, we can know discipline has become an idol when we are unable to extend grace to others who are less disciplined than ourselves.

But here’s the problem: elder-brotherness “inevitably leads to feeling superior to those who don’t have those same qualities.”

The second sign that we’ve made discipline an idol is that we are unable to extend grace to ourselves.

by reminding us that the gospel frees us from the need to be productive.

God doesn’t need us to finish our to-do lists. He loves and accepts us no matter how many good things we do and no matter how productive we are.