“Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.” 1 Timothy 4:15

It is about recovering a Gospel mindset after drifting; reattaching to Gospel moorings, continuing in the faith. Let me give you some numbers…it was 85 days, 16 hours, 25 minutes after an explosion of a BP oil rig in the gulf of Mexico to its shutoff. It was estimated that somewhere between 94 and 184 million gallons of oil were spilled during those 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes. Spiritually, you may feel like it’s been longer than that since you had a solid connection to God. You feel like they continually leak God’s grace, drifting dangerously in a poison mixture of good and evil, living in fear of God’s retaliation against your sin rather than the freedom of the children of God in Christ; living by feelings rather than truth; shrinking in shame; not boldly drawing near to God.