Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God.

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.

Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn't work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don't work! We must have a coordination system.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.