We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.