No neutral habits
If there are no neutral habits. If there are simply thick and thin practices, that is habits that form us at differing depths and levels of effect, if all well performed and attended habits are aimed toward a telos, and all habits are a means intimately connected to an ends, it requires us to then uncover the ends that are hidden or disguised behind our current cultural and personal practices to determine how the means we are participating in could possibly be malforming us (if we think of this as aligning with the liturgies of heaven or hell, truth or lie, we see how If the liturgies of formation are critically important). This is not to try to conform to an order of actions under the strings of a marionette, but a dance of a lover, not a determinism or predestination, but a work of art, a free response in and through the life of our creator.
If we understand that if our habits and practices are aligned with our ends, we are "perfect" (telos - something used as it was created to be use for; Rom. 12:2), and that most ends have means for us to align with, we see there are a lot of ways to be "perfect", as perfect is determined by the ends one is aiming for. But if we are looking toward the ends God has set for humanity, we see that our ends are to become like Christ, the image bearer, and as we find ourselves submitting all things to Christ's atonement and redemption, we are walking in Christ's image and are building toward the ends that call back to us from the future.
If Jesus is alive, in us and us in him, we must find the practices that join with Jesus in time, throughout days, in habits and liturgies that form the world around the Kingdom of God. A life of communion and prayer is this surrender, it is the acknowledgement that God is Lord over our time and our practices, yet also in and with us in helping reveal how these habits and practices are the way we are to walk that lead to the Kingdom.
What does it look like to form the means of my day around the ends of the Kingdom of God? If the ends are the bringing of all things in heaven and earth under Christ, then how can I form the intricate liturgies of my day around this Kingdom? If the Kingdom of God is love, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, then how does...
love (the sacrifice of oneself to fight for the God given value of someone or something he has created),
peace (internally, to be at peace with God, to be in Christ, with our true self, and Christ in us by our union in continual love, worship and devotion; laterally, forgiveness and peace with other humans; externally, a lack of conflict because we have ascribed ultimate worth and power to Father-Son-Holy Spirit and thus offer our trust and faith to this incarnate Creator – blocking all other pretending and deceiving powers from vying for our worship and creating chaos and conflict inside us),
joy (the emotional-mental-bodily result of the gifts of life, victory, safety, possibilities, wonder, creative power, and belonging because of God's death and resurrection victory over the enemy-accuser-deceiver, sin-lies-separation-exclusion, and over DEATH itself),
...determine the habits and practices of my day so that when my ends become the KINGDOM, I seek FIRST the Kingdom of God, my means will be revealed, and ALL these things will be added unto me?