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

This chapter on Perseverance was paradigm shifting for me.

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

"How do we get that framework, that sense of solid structure so that we know where we stand and are therefore able to do our work easily and without anxiety? Christians go to worship. Week by week we enter the place compactly built, 'to which the tribes ascend,' and get a working definition for life: the way God created us, the ways he leads us. We know where we stand." (47)