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luke fredenberg's avatar

Walking away with a good measure of conviction and ideas to ponder more. You did a great job of tenderly, yet boldly presenting these challenging ideas. Excellent.

Mark Goering's avatar

Thanks for the feedback brother!

Jeff Moore's avatar

Great post, Mark!

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Glad it connected with you Jeff

Christian Music Archeology's avatar

Good word. I starting with #1.

Mark Goering's avatar

Amen! Time to get back to undistracted devotion

Alan Hirsch's avatar

Great article Mark. Thanks.

Mark Goering's avatar

Appreciate the feedback Alan

Ana Murby's avatar

I liked this article. I felt convicted and encouraged. I don't usually hang with people outside of my Christian bubble, mostly because I don't go anywhere. I have five kids, and four live at home. I have my podcast and perhaps non-believers listen, but I am not sure.

All I know is that my whole life I have been sheltered by Christianity, so talking to people who aren't is not easy for me. I am open to it, though, but nervous.

Habit 7 was helpful for me. I have had a bad habit of trying to invest in everyone, and it started draining me and discouraging me. This helpful tip will really free me up to disciple whom I really should.

Mark Goering's avatar

Praise the Lord Ana. Sounds like you are leaning in and growing. Encouraging to hear 🙏🏻

EHC's avatar

what a good article, thank you for writing it !

Mark Goering's avatar

Appreciate the encouragement

Cory Patton's avatar

practical and insightful. thank you!

Mark Goering's avatar

Great! My lane is actionable content - appreciate that

Cory Patton's avatar

Same here! Check us out at https://linktr.ee/justabidedaily

Mark Goering's avatar

Word fed + Spirit led + habits 🙏🏻🙏🏻

fadhila William's avatar

👍 Spiritual vitamin

Abigail Wilson's avatar

This is great and I’ve already saved the graphic to discuss with my ladies when we meet!

Mark Goering's avatar

Come on Lord 🔥

Kevin E Beasley's avatar

Really great insights, Mark! Thank you!

Mark Goering's avatar

Thanks for the encouraging feedback bro

Ian Miller's avatar

Thanks for sharing Mark! Good stuff.

Mark Goering's avatar

Glad it connected with you Ian!

Pheaney's avatar

Fire bro. Will be reviewing this!

Mark Goering's avatar

Thanks bro!

Chuck Wood II's avatar

This was so good I read it again and made applications for each habit.

Applications from 7 Habits That Quietly Kill Disciple Making

Habit 1: Filling Every Quiet Moment With Stimulation

Application: I am usually pretty good at this one. Spend 30 additional minutes a day just thinking.

Habit 2: Treating Your Schedule Like a Fortress

Application: I actually applied this one over the last two weeks where I “entertained” interruptions like Jesus. This was an application from the Mark 1-6 study.

Habit 3: Consuming More Than Obeying

Application: Read Mark’s post again and come up with an application for each habit.

Habit 4: Living Entirely Inside Christian Subculture

Application: Find a morning to just sit in a local diner and drink coffee with an open Bible and an invitation to pray (Saturdays?)

Habit 5: Keeping Your Table Closed

Application: This will be tough right now but I will think and pray about this one.

Habit 6: Protecting Your Comfort From Costly Allegiance

Application: I’m usually pretty good at this one too. If someone engages with me I’m going to take as far as they will let me through the “conversation quadrants.”

Habit 7: Spending Your Time With Nonresponsive People

Application: I have some relationships I can think of that need pruning. I’ve been praying about this for some time now.

Jamie's avatar

I love your idea in habit #4.

Mark Goering's avatar

Wow. Going to ponder your response - thank you

Renee Padmore's avatar

I like how what you said wasn't just easy to understand, but practical in terms of how it's relevant to life today. Thanks for sharing so clearly.

notmyname's avatar

incredible! will be coming back to this

Micah Beckley's avatar

Wow. At some subconscious level I have known most of these. But you brought everything together so concisely and clearly that they have become concrete in my mind. I will definitely be sharing this.