“If something’s worth doing, it is worth doing badly,” Chesterton famously quipped. And formational habits are the same way. They are worth doing badly. More importantly, doing them badly is a gospel practice. Why? Because the only way that you can in principle aim your life at a beautiful vision, but in practice constantly fall short and keep trying anyway, is because you believe in the saving work of Jesus Christ and his ability to redeem the concept of law in your life. At