The Spirit of the Disciplines (edit title/settings)

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• John Wesley
• Matthew
• Phil
• Luther
• Adam
• Simon Peter
• Macmillan
• James
• Mark
• Harper
• O. Hardman
• Clark
• Exod
• Doubleday
• Ruskin
• Stewart
• Isaiah

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• “Ministers pay far too much attention to people who do NOT come to services”

• “If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that he knew how to live”

• “We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities he engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities he himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of his Father”

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• The general human failing is to want what is right and important, but at the same time not to commit to the kind of life that will produce the action we know to be right and the condition we want to enjoy. This is the feature of human character that explains why the road to hell is paved with good intentions. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality.

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• And in this truth lies the secret of the easy yoke: the secret involves living as he lived in the entirety of his life—adopting his overall life-style. Following “in his steps” cannot be equated with behaving as he did when he was “on the spot.” To live as Christ lived is to live as he did all his life.

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• The secret of the easy yoke is simple, actually. It is the intelligent, informed, unyielding resolve to live as Jesus lived in all aspects of his life, not just in the moment of specific choice or action.

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• True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would.

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• True character transformation begins, we are taught to believe, in the pure grace of God and is continually assisted by it. Very well. But action is also indispensable in making the Christian truly a different kind of person—one having a new life in which, as 2 Corinthians 5:17 states, “Old things have passed away and, behold, all things become new.” Failure to act in certain definite ways will guarantee that this transformation does not come to pass.

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• Full participation in the life of God’s Kingdom and in the vivid companionship of Christ comes to us only through appropriate exercise in the disciplines for life in the spirit.

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• Every Christian must strive to arrive at beliefs about God that faithfully reflect the realities of his or her life and experience, so that each may know how to live effectively before him in his world. That’s theology!

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• To undertake the disciplines was to take our activities—our lives—seriously and to suppose that the following of Christ was at least as big a challenge as playing the violin or jogging.

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• The disciplines are activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken, to bring our personality and total being into effective cooperation with the divine order. They enable us more and more to live in a power that is, strictly speaking, beyond us, deriving from the spiritual realm itself, as we “yield ourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto God,” as Romans 6:13 puts it.

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• The life alienated from God collapses when deprived of its support from the sin-laden world. But the life in tune with God is actually nurtured by time spent alone.

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• Jerusalem
• Israel
• Garden City
• St. Antony

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Dallas Willard (Author)

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• Dewey: 248.4

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• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Authors, A-Z › ( W ) › Willard, Dallas
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Christian Living
• Books › Religion & Spirituality › Spirituality