And I really believe in this matter of self-discipline that we as Christians need to get our act together.

We need to start saying here is the narrow path and here is the way God wants us to walk and here we will walk.

And if we love pleasure more than we love God at any point in time,

then we're gone off the track

and we have not exercised self-discipline and entered into sin.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Six hours a day, six days a week, hundreds of miles in the pool,

lap after lap of freestyle breaststroke,

butterfly, and backstroke,

followed by underwater kicking drills

and then add weightlifting and conditioning drills.

That was the workout routine of American swimmer Michael Phelps.

Amazing discipline that resulted in more gold medals than any Olympic athlete ever.

Well consider this, if you're a Christian, you are chasing something far more precious than Olympic

gold. You're chasing an imperishable eternal prize.

So how's your training regimen going? Are there improvements you can make?

John MacArthur helps you evaluate the discipline in your life and in the life of your

church as he continues his study the anatomy of a church. And now here's

John with today's lesson. I have a great desire that the church should be

what Christ wants it to be. That is my great passion. I was being interviewed by a gentleman

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