Michelle Clippinger’s Reviews > Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did > Status Update

“You are right now, currently, as we speak, being formed by a complex web of ideas, cultural narratives, reoccurring thoughts, habits, daily rhythms, spending patterns, relationships, family ties, activities, environments, and much more. Just by waking up and going about your life…All Christian formation is counter-formation.”

“This is the gospel: God has drawn near to us in Jesus — us, we who are sinful, broken, wounded, mortal, dying, and incapable of self-saving, with many of us completely uninterested in God or even enemies of God — to draw us into his inner life, to heal us by immersing us within the fold of his Trinitarian loved and then to send us out into the world as agents of his love.”

“Apprenticeship to Jesus is about turning your body into a temple, a place of overlap between heaven and earth—an advance sign of what one day Jesus will do for the entire cosmos, when heaven and earth are at long last reunited as one. This is the single most extraordinary opportunity in the entire universe: to let your body become God’s home. And it’s set before you every single day.”

AMEN & AMEN!!