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I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h

The church is the house of ministry because it is a place of prayer. The pastor prepares his people for ministry by teaching them to pray, by creating space for his people to pray for others and be prayed for. We receive the being of God through giving and receiving ministry. Prayer is the most directed, embodied way to live out of the disposition

These are the opportunities for right relationship: To form a loving image of our God, and To love our true God, with all our hearts, with all our minds, and with all our strength, and To love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves.

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