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“Spiritual formation in the North American church is often truncated to this three-part formula:
Go to church.
Read your Bible and pray.
Give.”
He writes that many people, doing these (very good and needed!) things, never experience the transformation that is possible in Christ, and the fallout in the Western church results in:
Churches full of people who are Christians but not apprentices of Jesus
A widespread cancer of hypocrisy that has infected the church, where the gap between Jesus' teachings and people's day-to-day lives (including those of many pastors) is too great to be explained away graciously
A generation of people disillusioned with the faith
Many who quietly ache for more of God and his transformation but feel stuck in their spiritual journeys and blocked in their growth.
John Mark Comer — excerpt from https://firebrandmag.com/articles/a-new-wesley-on-the-west-coast-john-mark-comers-call-to-become-apprentices-of-jesus
