human tendency to be reductionistic; that is, focused on only certain areas of biblical Christianity rather than the whole of life in Christ. I don’t know if this true with you, but for many people it’s easy in life to start being reductionistic—that is, we focus on the things that we’re comfortable with, we focus on the things that are close to us, that we know of, that are familiar to us. And that tends to happen sometimes as we are working at learning and practicing the spiritual disciplines. We stay