** the Old Testament Tabernacle and Spiritual Formation**

The challenge is to believe that the deepest desire is to awaken in hope, and to trust in bringing that hope for a life of formation with God. The Old Testament tabernacle wasn't about regulations, it was about forming people for life with God, just like spiritual formation from Exodus to Jesus and through church history. It reveals the tendency to confuse the means with the goal and emphasizes the importance of the 'why' over the 'how' of spiritual formation.