Practicing the Way (Pt.1)

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We covered a lot today so I wanted to just provide an outline you can follow. Firstly, here is a link to John Mark Comer's book: Practicing The Way.
Today we covered the idea of "No Accidental Saints" - The path to greater discipleship, apprenticing under Christ, is a distinct and intentional one. But that doesn't mean the hardest working people are the ones who get there. It's about faith.
We looked at three losing strategies:
1) Willpower (your own ability to try harder)
2) More Bible Study (if knowledge is all you get out of it)
3) The Zap from Heaven (expecting results without the struggle)
Why can't these things work? They seem good enough to get the job done. Well, there are many reasons. But here are two big ones:
1) Sin (mine, others, the world - there is just too much need for God's grace)
2) You (Ha. You being formed, shaped by habit and others into stories you believe)
So what do we do? Well, next week we will dig in on NINE amazing things. But for today, here are five words that represent A Working Theory of Change:
1) LEARN - Learn something. Get up everyday expecting to be changed.
2) PRACTICE - Be working on something. Have a daily focus of incremental change.
3) SHARE - That is, be around people and share with those who want all this too!
4/5) GOD and TIME - God is with you and at work on you and in you. You are not alone. Let faith in that sustain you. But God likes to use time. He likes it to take a while, so you can, you know, learn new practices. So relax a little. Don't expect or demand immediate change. God is at work in the struggle over time to greater things.