3 ways to power up your discipleship

By concentrating on outward achievements, we miss out on the deep work that Jesus wants to do in us, says Joe Warton. Let’s make 2024 the year we focus on purpose, people and practices

Here we go again. Step one: make a New Year’s resolution. Step two: take two spoonfuls of willpower. Step three: fail. Step four: do the same next year.

If that sounds like your January ritual, despair no more! While there’s always going to be a gap between the person you want to be and the person that you are, there’s a way we can all narrow that gap. In other words, you can grow (and help others grow too).

The area of growth I’m talking about is what the author David Brooks calls our “eulogy virtues”, as opposed to our “CV virtues”.