Recipe or Relationship

...perhaps our lists and formulas and bullet points are nice in the sense that they help us memorize different truths, but harmful in the sense that they blind us to the necessary relationship that must begin between ourselves and God for us to become His followers. And worse, perhaps our formulas and bullet points and steps steal the sincerity with which we might engage God.

Becoming a Christian might look more like falling in love than baking cookies. Now don't get me wrong... [it does entail knowing certain ideas] but ideas entangled in a kind of relational dynamic.

Donald Miller. SEARCHING FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT. The Gospel of Jesus.