More: How to Move from Activity for God to Intimacy with God

It wasn't supposed to be this way. We start out with hearts brimming with hope and excitement. And that energy carries us for awhile, maybe even years. But one day we suddenly find ourselves like the man in the Prodigal Son story: half-dead, going through the dreaded motions hoping no one around us notices. But they do. It's not that we've stopped loving God, but it's just that things have happened along the way that have caused us to settle for a small life, one defined primarily by activi...