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.

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

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.

It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.