The Walk: Balance and the Quadrants. January 19, 2025

Pastor Mia continues guiding us through The Walk: Essential practices of the Christian Life. This week, she helps us make sense of habits for being Christlike.In Christian living, we move continuously through a set of four quadrants that help us cultivate the practices of Christian living. The quadrants are worship, community, serving, and sharing. We can navigate these spaces by loving God and loving people, pouring out and filling up, and being in unity with God and others. Jesus was in balance of all four quadrants. We, however, tend to get stuck by favoring one over the others. Signs of quadrant stagnation include controlling behavior, giving out of personal gain, emphasis of self, and disproportionate focus on love of God.Balancing the four quadrants is an essential part of Christian life, because it leads to unity with God and others. Achieving that balance requires risk. To get there you need the courage to be vulnerable.