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Eperiential Faith Development
Discilines are like experiential education. Taking what you think you know about God and experiencing it in real life situations. Turning the truths you have been taught about God into a rock solid faith.
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Peter Syndrome
We can easily make ourselves believe we are way stronger and braver and better than we actually are. My son can spend all day pretending to slay dragons and fight monsters, but can be completely terrified when I ask him to go get something from the basement. We christains can be the same way. Thinking…
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Spiritual Beings
We have many different aspects of our lives that are our seperate in some reguard, but connected and interacting with each other at the same time. The spiritual disciplines can help each different aspect of our human being come under the control of our spirit. Fasting helps our body, specificially our appetite learn that it…
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Locker Room
Much of our faith development in churches involves talking, strategizing, developing a plan. We talk alot about what God wants us to do. Like sitting in a locker room, but never playing the game. Most of the time we don’t even make it to practice. Spiritual disciplines are like practice. We wouldn’t expect a very…
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Training vs. Trying
Often our best answer to grow spiritually is to try harder. We would think it crazy if someone who had never played an instrument stepped on stage trying to play a difficult piece and kept saying I will try harder. The audience would be waiting for hours. Dallas Willard says the Disciplines simply help us…
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Disequalibrium
I have been curious about how people change. Part of my education has been spent in the camp setting learning why camp can be such an effective change agent in people’s lives. One of the terms that I have learned is ‘disequalibrium’. This is the idea of taking people out of their comfort zone. It…
