Isaac Smith

“You read Scripture and hear God’s voice addressed to you. You meditate on Scripture and think about what he has said. Then your prayers, your words back to God, are a response to his prior word to you, and your prayers, in turn, are profoundly shaped in both form and content by the words of Scripture. When you are with other believers, you exhort and encourage and rebuke one another according to Scripture. Likewise, when you examine yourself, you measure your vices and your virtues not according to the cultural standards of the moment but according to the eternal standards set forth in God’s word. When you reflect on your life and the places God has providentially led you, you process and contextualize that journey within the promises and thought world of Scripture. For Reformation-minded Christians, spiritual formation cannot be reduced to Bible reading, but it can also never be separated from it.”
― Matthew C. Bingham, A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation

“The missiological approach of truth encounter has produced amazing fruit for God’s kingdom”
― Jayson Georges, The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures

“A humble countryman who serves God is more pleasing to Him than a conceited intellectual who knows the course of the stars, but neglects his own soul.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Inner Life

“Spiritual formation is the conscious process by which we seek to heighten and satisfy our Spirit-given thirst for God (Ps. 42:1–2) through divinely appointed means and with a view toward “work[ing] out [our] own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12) and becoming “mature in Christ” (Col. 1:28).”
― Matthew C. Bingham, A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation