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But great and good as these things were, they paled beside his love for Jesus Christ.
“Spiritual formation is not an option! The inescapable conclusion is that life itself is a process of spiritual development. The only choice we have is whether that growth moves us toward wholeness in Christ or toward an increasingly dehumanized and destructive mode of being.”
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
“We live in a culture that has reversed the biblical order of being and doing. Being and doing are integrally related, to be sure, but we have to have the order straight. Our doing flows out of our being. In spiritual formation the problem with being formed is that we have a strong tendency to think that if only we do the right things we will be the right kind of Christian, as though our doing would bring about our being.”
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
“It is possible for the practice of the classical disciplines itself to become a subtle form of works righteousness in which we come to think that by our faithful exercise of the disciplines we are transforming ourselves into the image of Christ.”
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
“Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to be raised by God into wholeness of life in the image of Christ right there at that point. So the process of being formed in the image of Christ takes place at the points of our unlikeness to Christ, and the first step is confrontation.”
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
“If you are the Son of God, speak, that these stones may become bread” (Mt 4:3). Do you see the nature of this temptation? The temptation is for Jesus to use his empowerment by the Spirit to do something that will authenticate God’s call. More significantly, it is a temptation to reverse the roles of being and doing, the temptation our culture has succumbed to. We tend to evaluate our own meaning, value and purpose, as well as those of others, not by the quality of our being but by what we do and how effectively we do it.”
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
― Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation
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