Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

Spiritual formation in the North American church is often truncated to this three-part formula: Go to church. Read your Bible and pray. Give.

spiritual formation in the Way of Jesus is how each of us is formed to be like Jesus and, in doing so, to be our deepest, truest self—the self that God had in mind when he willed us into existence before time began.

Because knowing something is not the same as doing something, which is still not the same as becoming the kind of person who does something naturally as a by-product of a transformed inner nature.

Prayer (that is, being with Jesus) is our primary portal to joy. It’s the best part not just of each day but of life.

there are no accidental saints. Nobody wakes up one morning around age fifty and thinks, Wow, would you look at that? I became a saint. Weird.

We can’t just know about the love of God; we have to know the love of God,[37] to experience it in our inner beings, if we are to be transformed into people of love.

The question for goal #2 is not all that different: How do we become like Jesus? A full answer would take a book,[35] but here’s the SparkNotes version: through contemplation. We let God love us into people of love.

The time of busyness does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees before the Blessed Sacrament.

“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.