Pen’s Reviews > A Holy Pursuit: How the Gospel Frees Us to Follow and Lay Down Our Dreams > Status Update

He is the dream!

any good-hearted goal, without the desire to give people eternal joy in God, is condemnation with a kind face. Love always wants what is best for the needy and what’s best is enjoying God fully and forever.

We must lay our dreams down before we ever pick them up, for if we hold to this dream tightly now, we will continue to keep a tight grip on it as it grows.

What we need are fewer revolutionaries and a few more plodding visionaries…The best churches are full of gospel-saturated people holding tenaciously to a vision of godly obedience and God’s glory, and pursuing that godliness and glory with relentless, often unnoticed, plodding consistency…Daily discipleship is not a new revolution each morning … it’s a long obedience in the same direction.

“It is loss to keep when God says ‘give.’”