3. Option or Necessity?
Once we realize that genuine spiritual growth is a continuous and sometimes difficult process, we might begin to think it's an option we can take or leave. The process of spiritual shaping is a primal reality of the human existence. Everyone is in the process of spiritual formation. Every thought, every decision, every action, every emotion, every response, every relationship are little by little shaping us in to some kind of being. We are either being shaped in to the image of Christ, or a horrible caricature of that image.