never used before: growable. Growable describes a person who is eager that his or her life be continuously reshaped to replicate the redemptive and serving love of Jesus Christ. We both liked our new word and our definition of it. We agreed that growable and growability had to be at the top of the list of criteria when we searched for people to be mentored into depth. I noticed that, as we talked into the evening, both of us subconsciously kept plugging conditional phrases into what we said—phrases such