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Essential Disciplines for Disciples

Essential Disciplines for Disciples

Written by: Pastor Dirk Rodgers
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 Spiritual growth does not happen by accident. Christians over the centuries have learned that we need to work at bringing our wayward mind and body into alignment with God’s purposes. We need to develop strong spiritual habits that will enable us to withstand challenges and to serve in this world. We have identified four spiritual habits, or disciplines, that we need to cultivate:

Bible Reading
Prayer
Giving & Stewardship
Sharing Your Faith

As with any discipline, it may take some time and effort before any of these practices become an everyday part of our lives. We can begin, however, to take small steps, and, over time, these small steps can carry us a long way.Copyright Pastor Dirk Rodgers Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Spirituality
Episodes
  • Sharing Our Faith - Part 2

    Sharing Our Faith - Part 2
    Sep 22 2020
    Welcome to the final session in our Essential Disciplines series, where we take up some practical recommendations for sharing your faith. In the previous session, we explored why God has commanded us to share our faith, and, now, in this session we discuss how to do this.
    We suggest a strategy based around 4 practices:
    1.Listen to Their Story
    2.Share Our Story
    3.Share God’s Story
    4.Connect Their Story to God’s Story
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    13 mins
  • Sharing Our Faith - Part 1

    Sharing Our Faith - Part 1
    Sep 15 2020
    . In this session, we address what, for many people, is perhaps the most challenging aspect of their spiritual journey. It is one thing for us to work on our own spiritual development, but how do we invite others to join us on this journey? What happens when our private faith must go public? This line might be difficult for some people to cross, but tremendous growth and fulfillment awaits those who are willing to take this challenge. In this session, we explore why God has commanded us to share our faith, and, in the next session, we will make some practical suggestions about how to do this, even for introverts like me!
    Beginning, then, with the why question, let’s look at three foundational, biblical truths:
    1.The Plight of Our Neighbor
    2.The Call of Our Lord
    3.The Power of Our Story
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    12 mins
  • Stewardship & Giving - Part 2

    Stewardship & Giving - Part 2
    Sep 14 2020
    In this session, we continue our discussion of Stewardship and Giving. In the last session, we established some foundational principles of Biblical stewardship, and here, in this session we will build on that foundation by discussing some practical recommendations for giving.
    As we learned in our last session, we are called to be faithful stewards of God’s creation. He owns everything, and He entrusts a portion of His possessions to us to manage on His behalf. We exercise this stewardship as we give faithfully to God’s work and to those in need, expressing both our worship and our love. This tells us why we should give. Now, in this session, we ask some more practical questions:
    1.What should we give?
    2.How much should we give?
    3.How often should we give?
    4.To whom should we give?
    5.How should we feel about giving?
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    12 mins
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