Lesson ▪ 1998 Tags: Fellowship Excerpted from “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”: Spiritual Disciplines for Devotional Vitality “Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do” (1 Thess 5.11). Insights
ExerciseChallenge the participants to seek out a fellow Christian with whom to share the progress of their devotional life over the course of a month.
Spiritual Disciplines Are for Every Christian
“We must not be led to believe that the Disciplines are only for spiritual giants and hence beyond our reach, or only for contemplatives who devote all their time to prayer and meditation. Far from it. God intends the Disciplines of the spiritual life to be for ordinary human beings: people who have jobs, who care for children, who wash dishes and mow lawns. In fact, the Disciplines are best exercised in the midst of our relationships with our husband or wife, our brothers and sisters, our friends and neighbors” (Foster 1).
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