From Don’t Call Me Veronica:

While the community of God is intended to serve each other, it shouldn’t ever replace your own relationship with God… don’t wait for the devotion to spend time with Him. I learned this the hard way when I was a new Christian and began to fall out of sync with my church. Soon I felt like I was falling out of sync with God… because sometimes when we think our commitment is God-sized it’s often only church-sized. And even then, we may think we have a church-sized commitment but it’s actually only cause-sized. And likewise, we may think we’re committed to a cause but really we’re only sticking around because our friends are there …

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Tony Myles is the Lead Pastor of Connection Church, an incredible movement of God in Medina, Ohio. With over 20 years of experience and advanced education in youth ministry, he is also a volunteer youth worker in his church, national ministry coach, book author, and columnist. Mostly, Tony is a “messy Christ-follower” with an overflowing love for God, his amazing wife Katie, their two awesome boys and one beautiful girl, and the Church in all its imperfect, redemptive beauty. Twitter: @tonymyles

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