Jonathan Mills’s Reviews > A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society > Status Update

In this chapter on Christian Community, Peterson hits every right note. Phenomenal work.

"Each act of obedience by the Christian is a modest proof, unequivocal for all its imperfection, of the reality of what he attests." - Karl Barth

"Obedience is fulfilled by hope."

"What we require is obedience-the strength to stand and the willingness to leap, and the sense to know when to do which. Which is exactly what we get when an accurate memory of God's ways is combined with a lovely hope in his promises"

This was one of the best chapters on humility I have ever read. I won't soon forget this line, "We are, alternatively, rebellious runaways and whining babies." (151)

This chapter on Perseverance was paradigm shifting for me.

"Endurance is not a desperate hanging on but a traveling from strength to strength." (125)