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Our Participation:
- We relationally connect with
God through Jesus by humble spiritual disciplines.
Biblical spiritual disciplines are a “specific training
of the heart by the Spirit to the call of the Word
of God in order to develop a habit of heart to obey
the specific call of the Word of God.”
(Coe, March 2006, CD) (1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Corinthians
9:27; John 4:34)
- We relationally connect with
God through our involvement in spiritual communities
that are seeking to glorify God by continually stimulating
spiritual transformation in its members into passionate,
sold-out followers of Christ. Spiritual communities
are intentional, spiritual and relational. We must
have spiritual friendships, participate in small
groups, and be connected to a local church to maximize
our maturity in Christ. (Hall, 2006, pp. 131-134)
Our Values:
- Biblical Spiritual Formation
starts with a big view of God in which we are being
overwhelmed by His majesty. (Psalm. 8; Isaiah. 40;
John 1:3; Romans 11:36; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians
1:16)
- This awesome God is seeking to
know me intimately and to enter into a relationship
of love through Jesus Christ. (1 John 5:20; John
17:3; Ephesians 3:16-19; Romans 8:35-39)
- God’s plan is to do, “God-sized
things through me, for His glory, if I will abandon
the path of making more of myself.” (Giglio,
2005, p. 23) (Luke 9:23-24; Philippians 3:7-10;
Galatians 2:20)
- God desires my worship of Him.
“Worship is our response, both personal and
corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has
done, expressed in and by the things we say and
the way we live.” (Giglio, 2006, p. 78) (Psalm
95; Psalm 150; Romans1:21; Hebrews 13:15, 16)
- The battle ground for Biblical
Spiritual Formation starts in my mind and the Scripture
teaches me what is right, what is not right, how
to get right, and how to stay right.--Warren Wiersbe.
(Romans 12:2; 2 Timothy
3:16; 2 Corinthians 10:4, 5; Exodus33:11, 13)
- We need others to help us in
the process of spiritual transformation into the
image of Christ. “A spiritual community has
four key characteristics: it is spiritual, relational,
intentional, and is greatly impacted by size. “
(Hall, 2006, p. 131) (Romans 12:1-21)
- We are called to be reflectors
of the awesomeness of God to the rest of the world.
Christ’s message must connect with the culture
without becoming a part of that culture. “The
world is watching to see if what we have in relationship
to Christ is better than what the world offers.”(R.
Murphy, personal communication, June 29, 2007) (Matthew
5:13-16; 28:18-20; Acts 1:8)
References
Coe, J. (Speaker).
(2006, Spring). Christianity, spirituality, and soul
care lecture series [CD]. LaMirada, CA: Biola University
Institute for Spiritual Formation.
Giglio, L. (2005). I am not, but I know I am. Sisters,
OR: Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Giglio, L. (2006) The air I breathe: worship as a
way of life. Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, Inc.
Hall, T. (2006) Furnishing the Soul, [electronic version].
Concentus Assessment Soutions, Inc.
Johnson, J., Matthews, K., & Willard, Dallas.
(2001). Dallas Willard’s study guide to the
divine conspiracy. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers,
Inc.
Mullholland, M. Robert. (2006) The deeper journey:
the spirituality of discovering the true self. Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
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