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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since Eugene Peterson first wrote this spiritual formation classic nearly forty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been inspired by its call to deeper discipleship. As a society, we are still obsessed with the immediate; new technologies have only intensified our quest for the quick fix. But Peterson’s time-tested prescription for discipleship remains the same—a long obedience in...

That is the authentic Christian note, a sign of those who are on the way of salvation. Joy is characteristic of Christian pilgrimage. It is the second in Paul’s list of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22–23). It is the first of Jesus’ signs in the Gospel of John (turning water into wine). It was said of the Hasid Levi-Yitzhak of Berditchev: “His smiles were fraught with greater meaning than his sermons.”3 The same thing can be said of much of the Bible: its smiles carry more meaning than its sermons.
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