The Disciplined Life is the Christian Life

"Love is the acid test of spiritual formation. The single most important question is, Are we becoming more loving? Not, Are we becoming more biblically educated? Or practicing more spiritual disciplines? Or more involved in church? Those are all good things, but not the most important thing. If you want to chart your progress on the spirituality journey, test the quality of your closest relationships - namely, by love and the fruit of the Spirit. Would the people who know you best say you are becoming more loving, joyful, and at peace? More patient and less frustrated? Kinder, and gentler, softening with time, and pervaded by goodness? Faithful, especially in hard times, and self-controlled?" -John Mark Comer (Practicing the Way)