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My dear friend, you have been traveling through Norway, searching for a place where there is deep connection with the land, the water, the air, the soil, and all living beings. You seek a community where generations live together in harmony, where spiritual practice flourishes, and where compassio... See more
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what we need is to learn a way of being-in-the-world that transforms us, day by day, by the rhythms of repentance and faith. We need to learn the slow habits of loving God and those around us.
Tish Harrison Warren • Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
As Teilhard de Chardin said, “We need to have more specialists in spirit who will lead people into self-discovery.” Offering workshops is a powerful way to do this.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
practices,” not because this is something we accomplish, but because these practices are the “habitations of the Spirit.”7 The practices of prayer and song, preaching and offering, baptism and Communion, are the canoes and boats and helicopters that God graciously sends our way. He meets us where we are, as creatures of habit who are shaped by prac
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
They had to discern what the Spirit was doing. The practices they learned involved dwelling, working, eating, listening, and healing with and among the people of these towns.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
The call not to neglect our inner experience is a valid one, but everything turns on the question of whose voice is directing us, whether it be our own or the voices around us or the voice of God given to us in his Word.
Kathleen Nielson • Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church (The Gospel Coalition)
Local churches need to think through how they can develop a philosophy of ministry that will do just that. Depth with God is the way of holistic discipleship.
J.T. English • Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus
As industrialization took hold, we needed pastors to check our secular excesses and to encourage us to live upright lives, particularly now that most of us were living in new urban centers, where temptation was ripe. We needed pastoral exhortation not to keep us from hell (as Edwards would believe) but to allow us to flourish, as an end in itself.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Among serious Christians in congregations today there is a growing desire to meet together with other Christians during the midday break from work for life together under the Word. Life together is again being understood by Christians today as the grace that it is, as the extraordinary aspect, the “roses and lilies” of the Christian life (Luther).