What we see in this wondrously life-saving program is a general arrangement of the human personality that, really, is totally obvious to any thoughtful person. But we are rarely thoughtful. As the line from A. E. Houseman says, “We think by fits and starts.” Thus a part of the call of God to us has always been to think. Indeed the call of Jesus to “repent” is nothing but a call to think about how we have been thinking. And when we come to the task of developing disciples into the fullness of Christ, we must be very clear that one main part, and by far the most fundamental, is to form the
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