26 Men: What’s the Key?

Last week Dane Ortlund asked 26 men to provide a one-sentence answer to the question: “What is the key to healthy Christian growth in godliness?

Here’s Dane’s explanation of the question:

That’s the question I asked a handful of thoughtful men of God last week.

Please understand: I explicitly asked our brothers to keep it to a single, short sentence. Of course, whole volumes could be (and have been!) written addressing this question (here’s my favorite). So we gladly receive these wise statements remembering that sanctification is not a math problem. There is no formula. Every answer below needs a hundred footnotes. Point taken.

The purpose of this exercise is not to provide an opportunity to nit-pick but to re-center, refresh, encourage, spur on, help one another.

Here is the answer I gave:

Trusting and enjoying God as your Father, living as his son/daughter, on account of Christ’s work.

Maybe my favorite answer came from Justin Taylor:

The key to healthy growth in godliness is to seek and to enjoy fellowship with the Father, in union with Christ, through the power of the Spirit, in accordance with the Word, with the body of Christ.

Go to Dane’s blog to read and think through all 26 answers.