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.

Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

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.

Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.

God's address is at the end of your rope.

God does not 'love' us without liking us.