Other than a few paragraphs which you could read every day for a month and continue to be inspired, there is not even a conclusion in this book. And a few ideas of how to begin the spiritual discipline.The fruits of exercising that discipline.Beginning with a brief but profound call to the spiritual disciplines followed by a chapter per discipline discussing these three fundamentals: Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline is about as straightforward of a book on spiritual disciplines as it gets. More importantly, how to “exercise unto godliness” and establish “new life-giving habits” with Celebration of Disciplines as a useful guide.
Today you will learn what I missed the first couple of times I read this profound book. They aim at replacing old destructive habits of thought with new life-giving habits.” Celebration of Discipline “The purpose of the Spiritual Disciplines is the total transformation of the person. It took reading Celebration of Disciplines and many other best spiritual disciplines books for transformation to begin to occur,
Are you?”Ĭelebration of Disciplines is a practical theology book, but I did not learn its practicality until years after reading it for my first time. Does that sound too earthy, too unspiritual a goal? God is intently interested in such matters. Perhaps as you enter into a listening silence the joyful impression to learn how to weave or how to make pottery emerges. God delights in showing us exciting new alternatives for the future. One of the most impactful quotes from Celebration of Disciplines comes from the section discussing two of the most important spiritual disciplines, solitude and silence ,
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