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“Therefore, instead of using the term spiritual disciplines, which points to a stance of independence and self-help, it would be better to use the term spiritual postures. These means of grace are ways to posture ourselves in the Spirit to God in Christ. Our “discipline” is really just a posturing.”
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
“The focus on the present reality of heaven and hell does not, in some way, raise the question of their existence. Far from it. The present realities of love and hate are proof that heaven and hell are real—so real, in fact, that their ways of life bleed into ours.”
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
“While our sight is limited, so is our formation. While salvation entails many things (forgiveness, imputation of righteousness and so on), ultimately, it entails a new relationship. The sinner, cut off from the Father by his wrath now stands before him as child. She who was once rejected before God is now the beloved before him.”
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
“Unlike our current depictions of the church’s relationship to Christ, which are often stoic—emotionless and without poetic imagination—Edwards refuses to hold back: “the soul shall, as it were, all dissolve in love in the arms of the glorious Son of God and breath itself wholly in ecstasies of divine love into his bosom.”[5] People are fully alive in heaven, and being fully alive entails being saturated with love:”
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
― Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
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