Demetrius Alexander

“Holistic spiritual disciplines are acts of loving obedience we offer to God steadily and consistently, to be used for whatever work God purposes to do in and through our lives.”
― M. Robert Mulholland, Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

“Such empowerment is what Paul describes as the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (Gal 5:22-23 RSV). These come not by our effort or by attempts to inculcate them in our actions, but are gifts that emerge as we release control of our lives and come to entrust ourselves to God.”
― M. Robert Mulholland, 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.”
― M. Robert Mulholland, Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

“Our relationships with others are not only the testing grounds of our spiritual life but also the places where our growth toward wholeness in Christ happens. There is a temptation to think that our spiritual growth takes place in the privacy of our personal relationship with God and then, once it is sufficiently developed, we can export it into our relationships with others and “be Christian” with them. But holistic spirituality, the process of being formed in the image of Christ, takes place in the midst of our relationships with others, not apart from them. We learn to be Christ’s for others by seeking to be yielded and obedient to God in the midst of our relationships.”
― M. Robert Mulholland, Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation