A church member asked if spiritual steps are one-time or ongoing. The answer: they're a pattern you repeat whenever the Lord convicts you. Take your thoughts captive, submit, confess, repent, restore. This discipline and spontaneous joy work together.
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I don't remember that on the bookmarks. I was just talking with somebody yesterday in church who, you know, she had gone through a portion of the steps. We're heading into doing them in our class, our class at church coming up the next few weeks. And she was asking some questions about it. And she said, so is this like a once and done thing? And Jen and I, my wife and I, were talking to her about how, no, it really is a pattern to learn how do I, in the moment when the Lord convicts me of things, take my thoughts captive and submit to him and confess and repent and, you know, get back in right standing with the Lord. But sometimes we also enjoy the levity that we can get through our freedom, right? Uninhibited spontaneity is— That's right. That's what fun is.