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[DISCIPLESHIP] 14. The High Peaks of Discipleship

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Paul, Jon, and Liz reflect on the landscape of discipleship, contrasting the boredom of plains with the beauty of high peaks.

"One quality of all the high points is perfection. You see it in Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount’s 'Be perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is perfect.' In other words, when you do these things, do them really, really well."

"Beauty is one of the church's best apologetics."

"Really, perfection is a whole style of the New Testament. Like, we're really in this for real. Toyota and Honda really struggled when they brought their plants to America, because they could not reach the perfection the Japanese machinists could reach in terms of clearances on the parts. Americans couldn't get any closer than two 1/100ths of an inch of perfection, and the Japanese got to one 1/100th. Every good trade has these perfections in it. Where are these perfections in Christianity, in our faith? That’s what you see in the high peaks."

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Paul, Jon, and Liz reflect on the landscape of discipleship, contrasting the boredom of plains with the beauty of high peaks.

"One quality of all the high points is perfection. You see it in Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount’s 'Be perfect, even as your Heavenly Father is perfect.' In other words, when you do these things, do them really, really well."

"Beauty is one of the church's best apologetics."

"Really, perfection is a whole style of the New Testament. Like, we're really in this for real. Toyota and Honda really struggled when they brought their plants to America, because they could not reach the perfection the Japanese machinists could reach in terms of clearances on the parts. Americans couldn't get any closer than two 1/100ths of an inch of perfection, and the Japanese got to one 1/100th. Every good trade has these perfections in it. Where are these perfections in Christianity, in our faith? That’s what you see in the high peaks."

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