First I would like to state and confirm that I have read 100% of the assigned reading, the book Celebration of Discipline the Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster.
The Spiritual disciplines helps you obtain spiritual growth which is necessary to cultivate a healthy intimate relationship with God and change our lives. The various disciplines described in the Celebration of Discipline provide instruction on the pathways to attaining healthy spiritual growth resulting in transformation which ultimately leads one to celebration and joy. The author describes these steps within the context of three disciplines which are the inward disciplines, the outward disciplines and the corporate disciplines. These disciplines are interwoven and build on each other to produce …show more content…
I never thought of it that way. Although I considered aspects of my spiritual journey requiring some form of discipline I never consider the journey itself being a discipline. I consider myself to be a pretty disciplined person with regard to achieving a particular task or goal or how I live and order my life. In the same manner my desire to obtain a closer more intimate walk with God can be achieved through practicing these spiritual disciplines resulting in change and transformation.
The Spiritual disciplines that most resonated with me were those that Foster describes as the Inward Disciplines. They consist of meditation, prayer, fasting and study. (Foster,pp 13-76). I felt more comfortable with this one because I believed they were practices I have done and am more familiar with. After reading about them; however, I was humbled at actually how very little I actually did know about them as a discipline. When I considered where these practices existed in my walk with the Lord I had to admit how poorly I was actually practicing any of them. I come to realize I really had very little in depth understanding of how to actually do any of them in
The Spiritual disciplines helps you obtain spiritual growth which is necessary to cultivate a healthy intimate relationship with God and change our lives. The various disciplines described in the Celebration of Discipline provide instruction on the pathways to attaining healthy spiritual growth resulting in transformation which ultimately leads one to celebration and joy. The author describes these steps within the context of three disciplines which are the inward disciplines, the outward disciplines and the corporate disciplines. These disciplines are interwoven and build on each other to produce …show more content…
I never thought of it that way. Although I considered aspects of my spiritual journey requiring some form of discipline I never consider the journey itself being a discipline. I consider myself to be a pretty disciplined person with regard to achieving a particular task or goal or how I live and order my life. In the same manner my desire to obtain a closer more intimate walk with God can be achieved through practicing these spiritual disciplines resulting in change and transformation.
The Spiritual disciplines that most resonated with me were those that Foster describes as the Inward Disciplines. They consist of meditation, prayer, fasting and study. (Foster,pp 13-76). I felt more comfortable with this one because I believed they were practices I have done and am more familiar with. After reading about them; however, I was humbled at actually how very little I actually did know about them as a discipline. When I considered where these practices existed in my walk with the Lord I had to admit how poorly I was actually practicing any of them. I come to realize I really had very little in depth understanding of how to actually do any of them in