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Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

471: [Formed.] Take Responsibility for YOUR Spiritual Growth. Dr. Eric Mason on The Greatest Problem with Bad Teaching (That Few Recognize), Why You Can't Give God Ultimatums, and Why You Can't Make Your Assignment Your Purpose

Win Today: Your Roadmap to Wholeness

Christopher Cook

Mental Health, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 528 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

You can admire spiritual maturity from a distance, or you can take your formation journey seriously. Many of us prefer the former. We outsource growth to personalities, call delayed obedience "wisdom," and bargain with God when surrender would cost too much. This week on Win Today, Dr. Eric Mason joins me to confront the quiet drift that hollows discipleship: the consumer posture that fuels bad teaching, the spiritual immaturity that bargains with God, and the confusion that happens when we make our assignment our purpose. If your faith has been built around sermons more than Scripture, preferences more than practices, or outcomes more than obedience, this conversation is your invitation to grow up on purpose, with the Spirit, for the long road of holiness.

Guest Bio

Dr. Eric Mason is the founder and lead pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia and the founder/president of Thriving, an urban ministry training leaders for city contexts. A pastor-theologian for nearly three decades, he has preached and trained nationally and internationally and authored several books. He holds a B.S. in Psychology (Bowie State), a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary—where he was mentored by Dr. Tony Evans at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship—and a D.Min. from Gordon-Conwell. Eric and his wife, Yvette, live in Philadelphia with their four children: Immanuel, Nehemiah, Ephraim, and Amalyah.

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0:00.0

The Art of Leadership Network. This week on Wynn today. I'm like, where are the people who just want God,

0:07.6

who want His Word, who want the Holy Spirit? People have to have their preferences met before they're

0:14.6

committed to God's principles, which is a problem. Plug into a healthy local church and plug into what they already have available.

0:23.4

In other words, stop looking for the church to customize discipleship to your own personal

0:28.7

settings.

0:29.8

Hey, you guys, welcome to a brand new year here on the podcast, and I thought it was fitting

0:33.5

for the new year to do a little remodel on the front end of the show with a new

0:37.8

intro. I hope you like it. Well, this week we begin our annual discipleship series formed,

0:43.7

and when I prayed about the direction of this series, First Timothy 4-7 kept coming back to my

0:48.4

heart. Scripture says, train yourselves for godliness. And so this month, that's what we're going to do.

0:56.0

We're going to have provocative, challenging, maturity-minded conversations that will indeed

1:01.6

poke some boxes, poke some necessary boxes, if I can be so bold.

1:06.5

But if you know me by now, you know I wouldn't have it any other way.

1:10.6

I want to grow.

1:11.8

I want you to grow.

1:13.3

And so that's where we're headed this month informed.

1:16.2

And that means that you can't outsource the health of your spirit and your soul or gamify the system in any way.

1:23.4

Because here's the point.

1:24.1

If you want to build your life around personalities and cliches and

1:28.5

ultimatums and preferences and outcomes, I believe you're going to end up with a faith that performs

1:34.4

maybe decently, but it will not last for the long haul. So today, an incredible pastor, Dr. Eric Mason

1:42.4

joins me to call us back to formation that costs us something,

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