Spiritual Practices

“The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from Him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.”

- Dallas Willard, The Great Omission

We all want to grow. We all want to change. As we learn what it means to know and follow Jesus as Citizens of God’s Kingdom, we come to grips with the tension of two realities about our lives: (1) we are called and desire to grow in our relationships with Christ but also (2) Christian growth is much slower and more painful than we thought or care to admit.

Nobody drifts into discipleship - it takes a lifetime of practice, training, and experimentation to unlearn the old ways of being and live into our new identity as God’s beloved children. Or another way to say it - there is no transformation without repetition. If we want to be more godly, more holy, more Christlike and more closely abiding with God in 10, 20, 30, or 40 years, it’s going to take repeated patterns of discipleship and spiritual formation day in and day out.

Our hope for our church is that as we would have the vision for a life with Christ, live out the rhythms that bring that vision into reality, and be formed into the image of Christ. That in all of this we would learn to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did.

Be with Jesus

Become Like Jesus

Do what Jesus Did