A Team Binion book
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New release · Chris Binion
DUST
The Forgotten Art
of Following Jesus
For the faithful and the busy—for anyone who has represented Jesus in every room they enter while quietly wondering when they last walked beside Him.
You learned how to serve Him.
But when did you last simply walk beside Him?
Come closer.
The invitation
You don’t have a
knowledge problem.
You have a nearness problem.
It is possible to know the language, carry the responsibility, and faithfully do the work—while slowly losing the felt reality of walking with Jesus.
Dust is an invitation to get close again, and to stay there long enough for the closeness to change you.
“The dust was not the point.
Nearness was.”
The quiet gap
I did not drift
through rebellion.
I drifted through proficiency.
Competence can become camouflage. We can speak about Jesus, serve in His name, and carry responsibility for others while our own hearts learn to live at a distance.
This is not a book about guilt, trying harder, or adding another system to an already crowded life. It is about recovering the thing underneath all of it: being with Him.
Proximity before performance
Before Jesus asked
them to carry the message,
He asked them to come near.
The Gospels become a walking trail: a place to watch His pace, notice what interrupts Him, listen for what moves His heart, and learn the life of a disciple by staying close.
Inside the book
A book to walk with.
Not race through.
Eighteen movements lead from recognizing the gap to returning, noticing, and continuing. Every chapter closes with a practical “Walk This Out” workbench.
- I
Name the distance
The Nearness Problem · The Gap Nobody Talks About · Covered in Dust
→ - II
Learn His pace
Proximity Before Performance · Learning by Watching · Attentive Prayer · Holy Interruptions
→ - III
Notice the evidence
The Slow Work of Grace · Suffering as Formation · Humility as Evidence · His Fingerprints on Your Life
→ - IV
Keep walking
You Are Leaving a Trail · Walking Alongside · Still Following
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His fingerprints on your life
Formation is often
quiet evidence.
Grace works slowly enough to be missed while it is happening. Dust teaches you to notice the marks: a softened response, a holy interruption, a quicker return, a life that begins to carry the shape of the One it follows.
A prayer for the road
Rabbi,
Keep me close enough
for the dust to settle.
When I drift, call me back.
When I hurry, slow my steps.
There is no finished version.
There is only following.