Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Chapter 3 from The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg.
Trying hard can accomplish only so much. If you are serious about something, you will have to enter a training for it and would need to do it continually. You must arrange your life around certain practices that will enable you to do what you cannot do now by willpower alone.
Spiritual disciple is not about trying to be good enough to earn credit with God. They exist for our sake, not God's.
Discipline: Any activity I can do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
People do not drift into a life of training, they decide to. It does not come by accident; it is done purposely and deliberately.
If my problem is that I am doing something I ought not to do, I need to practice a disciple that strengthens my not-doing muscles.
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