Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.

The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

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