—Spiritual formation is slow work. Our culture demands results now.

—Becoming a real follower is one step forward two steps back kind of stuff. Our culture expects success on success.

—Bending our lives toward Christ’s model means denial of self. Our culture says gratify the self at all costs!

Discipleship is counter-cultural …
here’s what I mean:

—The soul work of growing faith IDEALLY happens in silence with nothing competing with the Spirit’s work in us. But culture is multi-task friendly, stimulus rich, and data intensive.

Jesus understood that the process of becoming a follower happened away from the crowds. Do we?