Christians, we have a race to run, a mission and calling for today.  God calls us to a disciplined life.  For some of us, that word “discipline” may have connotations of striving in our own strength to follow rules, as if God saves us by grace, then sends us off to the  exhausting and impossible task of  being worthy of that salvation.  But no.  God’s beautiful grace follows us in its transforming work.  We must discipline our hearts to abide in Christ, to live with the end in view, to surrender to His work, to His heart.  But God does not send us out alone.  He gives us the Spirit to walk with us and Christ’s example to empower us.  Today, Rich unpacks 1 Peter 4:7-11 in this message titled, Disciplined for the Goal.