Goal Setting, Scheduling and Organization

"It's about time!" This exclamation is usually expressed to us when we finally do the one thing that is most important to someone with whom we are close. In our walk with God, He desires and waits for a few things from us. How do we stay focused?

Gil Bates has a clearly-stated goal for his family: to lead them in the Lord's ways. But the Lord had to coach him first. Gil's testimony tells how God challenged him at home and at work to do what he never wanted to do in order to be the man he wanted to be.

God's intent. God's design. God's great mystery. That is marriage! And that's why the world cannot understand it. Yet for the same reason, followers of Christ can trust the marriage covenant. Two become one and God's image is expressed in its fullness. Here is cause for rejoicing.

Even today basic steps of spiritual growth and discipleship are shrouded in mystery for many Christians. This is because the genuine experience of becoming a disciple of Christ and in turn discipling others can be hard to explain even after we've successfully done it.