God is the author of spiritual life, and in Scripture he has given clear and sufficient guidance for how we are to pursue it. To this end, the Bible repeatedly highlights some things rather than others as the tools that God has given his
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“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).”
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
“Where we seek refuge in a therapeutic Christianity that appeals to our wounded pride but is ultimately foreign to a scriptural worldview”
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
― 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”
― The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures
― The 3D Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures
“When one combines the Bible’s basic, overriding redemptive-historical orientation toward the Word and the words of God with the New Testament’s consistent assumption that a Christian pastor’s first priority is to “present [himself] to God as one approved, a worker . . . rightly handling the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15), one can clearly see how the Reformers’ positive agenda began with the need to prioritize the word of God for the people of God.”
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
“medieval Catholicism consistently subordinated Scripture in ways that the Reformers found offensive and unbiblical. Regarding the sacraments, it is certainly not that the Reformers rejected them or had little interest in them—far from it. Rather, they believed that medieval Catholicism had become unduly tilted toward an overemphasis on the sacraments and their role in shaping the Christian community, and the Reformers sought to redress the balance.”
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
― A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation
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