In this reflection, Steve L. Porter challenges scholars, pastors, and practitioners to approach the study of Christian spiritual formation with the weight it deserves—as a matter of life and death. Drawing from voices like Dallas Willard, Dorothee Sölle, and Martin Luther King Jr., Porter calls us to resist academic complacency and live with intentionality, urgency, and sacrificial love. A timely reminder that spiritual formation is not just informative—it’s transformative.