Learning and Perseverance for the Purpose of Godliness
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Learning for the Purpose of Godliness
Learning for the Purpose of Godliness
Learning Characterizes the Wise Person
Learning Characterizes the Wise Person
Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser,
Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.
Wise men store up knowledge,
But with the mouth of the foolish, ruin is at hand.
The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge,
And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Apply your heart to discipline
And your ears to words of knowledge.
Fulfilling the Greatest Commandment
Fulfilling the Greatest Commandment
and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
“We should love God just as much with our mind as with our heart and soul and strength.”
“We should love God just as much with our mind as with our heart and soul and strength.”
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 276). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
“Unless we love God with a growing mind, we will be Christian versions of the Samaritans to whom Jesus said, ‘You worship what you do not know.’” ().
“Unless we love God with a growing mind, we will be Christian versions of the Samaritans to whom Jesus said, ‘You worship what you do not know.’” ().
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 276). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
Learning Essential for Increased Godliness
Learning Essential for Increased Godliness
“We will not grow more like Christ if we do not know more about Christ.”
“We will not grow more like Christ if we do not know more about Christ.”
“If you know little about godliness, you will grow little in godliness.”
“If you know little about godliness, you will grow little in godliness.”
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 278). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
Learning is Mostly by Discipline, Not by Accident
Learning is Mostly by Discipline, Not by Accident
“The abundant in years may not be wise,
Nor may elders understand justice.
“Those who are not trying to learn will only get spiritual and biblical knowledge by accident or convenience.”
“Those who are not trying to learn will only get spiritual and biblical knowledge by accident or convenience.”
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 278). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
“The Discipline of learning transforms accidental learners into intentional learners.”
“The Discipline of learning transforms accidental learners into intentional learners.”
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 279). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
Learning in a Variety of Ways
Learning in a Variety of Ways
Listening to Bible Teachers and Christian Books
Listening to Bible Teachers and Christian Books
Intentional Conversations with Mature Believers
Intentional Conversations with Mature Believers
Church Classes
Church Classes
Reading
Reading
Perseverance for the Purpose of Godliness
Perseverance for the Purpose of Godliness
The Role of the Holy Spirit
The Role of the Holy Spirit
“Wherever the Holy Spirit dwells, His presence creates a hunger for holiness.”
“Wherever the Holy Spirit dwells, His presence creates a hunger for holiness.”
“...in the Christian, the Spirit of God begins to carry out the will of God to make the child of God like the Son of God.”
“...in the Christian, the Spirit of God begins to carry out the will of God to make the child of God like the Son of God.”
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 291). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
The Holy Spirit works through our works to accomplish His work in us.
The Holy Spirit works through our works to accomplish His work in us.
The Spiritual Disciplines are the surgical instruments that the Holy Spirit uses to perform Spiritual surgery on the disciple.
The Spiritual Disciplines are the surgical instruments that the Holy Spirit uses to perform Spiritual surgery on the disciple.
Spiritual discipline for the purpose of Godliness is really about applying the disciplines to our lives to more completely surrender our will to the Holy Spirit as He reveals through those disciplines how we may live for His glory.
Spiritual discipline for the purpose of Godliness is really about applying the disciplines to our lives to more completely surrender our will to the Holy Spirit as He reveals through those disciplines how we may live for His glory.
The Role of Fellowship
The Role of Fellowship
“Anyone who measures progress in Christlikeness only in terms of growth in his or her fellowship with God takes an incomplete measurement.”
“Anyone who measures progress in Christlikeness only in terms of growth in his or her fellowship with God takes an incomplete measurement.”
And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 293). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
“Christian fellowship - New Testament koinonia - involves talking about God, the things of God, from a uniquely Christian perspective.”
“Christian fellowship - New Testament koinonia - involves talking about God, the things of God, from a uniquely Christian perspective.”
“J. I. Packer defines fellowship as “a seeking to share in what God has made known of Himself to others, as a means to finding strength, refreshment, and instruction for one’s own soul.’”
“J. I. Packer defines fellowship as “a seeking to share in what God has made known of Himself to others, as a means to finding strength, refreshment, and instruction for one’s own soul.’”
from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 295). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
The Role of Struggle
The Role of Struggle
“Advance in the Christian life comes not by the work of the Holy Spirit alone, nor by our work alone, but by our responding to the grace the Holy Spirit initiates and sustains.”
For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.
Whitney, Donald S.. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (p. 297). The Navigators. Kindle Edition.
The World, The Flesh and The Devil and how they war against Us.
The World, The Flesh and The Devil and how they war against Us.
The World
The World
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The Flesh
The Flesh
The Flesh
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.
The Devil
The Devil
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.