The Way is a Discipline

The Way of Jesus Christ is a discipline. It is not a "practice once and you're set for life" thing.
     What do I mean by it being a discipline? Kung Fu is a discipline, but what is interesting about the term in Chinese is that it doesn't just apply to martial arts, but it can apply to any skill which someone has diligently studied and mastered. In Kung Fu, one takes a single movement or set of movements and repeats them over and over again. This movement or set of movements can be practiced a hundred times, a thousand times, or countless times. In truth, the practitioner never stops practicing. A good example is the Karate Kid remake where Dre is made to practice the motions of picking up his jacket and hanging it on a hook day in and day out by his Sifu, Mr. Han. It seems pointlessly repetitive to Dre and he becomes angry that Mr. Han hasn't taught him anything about Kung Fu. It is then that his Sifu walks him through each motion, showing him how the movements of a simple act of picking up his jacket and putting it on the hook translate into a full set of defensive blocks which his body is now employing without thought. A single movement or set of movements practiced over and over again until they are automatic, and then continued to be practiced after that.
     This is what is meant by the Way of Jesus Christ being a discipline. It is meant to be a "Kung Fu" practice. It is the single internal movement of disengaging from one's own self-originated responses and the submitting to and cooperating with the responses, actions, and words originating with the Spirit of Christ. It is to be practiced over and over and over again "ad infinitum." It is to be practiced until it is performed without conscious thought, and then it is to be continued to be practiced. If the practitioner makes a mistake, they are to recognized the mistake, or be shown the mistake, and then make the correction and continue practicing. One motion, submission to the Spirit of Christ, over and over and over again.