Coming up with “rules” can put your life back under the control of your deepest desires.

Jesus famously said, I am the way and the truth and the life.[50] People misread this as a statement about who’s in or out and who’s going to hell and who’s en route to heaven, but that’s not likely what Jesus meant. It’s far more likely he was saying that the marriage of his truth (his teaching) and his way (his lifestyle) is how to get to the

This is the first and most important goal of apprenticeship to Jesus: to be with him, to spend every waking moment aware of his presence and attentive to his voice. To cultivate a with-ness to Jesus as the baseline of your entire life.

But our Physician is the only true God…Jesus the Christ….He became subject to corruption, that He might free our souls from death and corruption, and heal them, and might restore them to health, when they were diseased with ungodliness and wicked lusts.

We must embrace this church, this pastor, these people. We must forgive these shortcomings and celebrate these strengths. Community is always a nonabstract journey into facing reality.

The Way of Jesus is not just a theology (a set of ideas that we believe in our heads). It is that, but it’s more.

We will fail at pretty much everything written in this book. Often. Not just daily but, at least in the beginning, hourly. That doesn’t make you a bad apprentice; it just makes you human.

Notice, he often withdrew to the erēmos. On the night before his arrest, Jesus went to Gethsemane, a park outside the city of Jerusalem. The writer Luke tells us he went there “as usual.”[60] One version has “as was His habit.”[61] And the writer John added that the betrayer Judas knew to go there “because Jesus had often met there with his

“Preamble,” A Rule of Life for Redemptive Entrepreneurs, https://rule.praxislabs.org/​preamble. See the Rule Andy and others developed for Praxis: https://rule.praxislabs.org.