A father and pastor offers high school graduates twenty-five lessons about the real world, including "Life isn't fair," "nobody gets away with anything," "you need the church almost as much as the church needs you," and "its never too late to turn around"
So how to we do it? How do we become loving Christians? Thats the age-old question. We want five simple steps to follow or a glorious one-time experience in church that will forever transform us. But there is no such solution. There are no shortcuts to maturity.
Maturity is a lifelong, violent wrestling match between the natural desire to be selfish and the God-give desire to care for others. It is brutal. It is agonizing. It is not for the squeamish.