Is the Western Church chasing the wrong things?

Pastor, teacher, and author Dallas Willard seemed to think so:

“A fundamental mistake of much of the western church is that it takes as its basic goal to get as many people as possible ready to die and go to heaven. It aims to get people into heaven rather than to get heaven into people.”

—Dallas Willard, Rennovation of the Heart

A reader shared this quote in the comments of Friday’s post, and I just had to reshare. We’re having a phenomenal conversation there, talking about books that have shaped us and books we’ve had to walk away from.

Books quietly disciple us, more than we realize.