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Book Genre: Christian, Christianity, Christian Living, Discipleship, Faith, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Theology He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, “From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38 (NASB) The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are not only historical facts and significant doctrines, but they are the personal experiences of every believer through “union with Christ.” As believers, we have each been “baptized into Christ” – spiritually speaking, that means “we died with Christ” and “we were raised with Christ,” that we might walk in newness of life (Rom 6:3-4). The essence of the myster-ious union we have with Christ is this – God’s Spirit spiritually placed us “in Christ” 2000 years ago at the cross, so that when He died, we died with Him. . . and when He was raised, we were raised with Him (Rom 6:5; Gal 2:20; Col 2:20; 3:1). That is the spirituality reality of every believer; they are all “in Christ;” that is their “position” if you will (Rom 6:3-4, 11; 1 Cor 1:30; Gal 3:27; Eph 2:6; 2:10; Col 3:3). Christ “died to sin” in the sense that He bore sin’s penalty (Rom 6:23); as a result sin has no more claim or demand upon us. . . because we died with Him. As Christians we are no longer “alive to sin” and “dead to God” – we are now brand new creations in Christ (2 Cor 5:17); therefore we are “dead to sin” and “alive to God.” We were “crucified with Christ” that our old self might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin – that means we are freed from sin (Rom 6:6-7); we now have the capacity to walk in newness of life (Rom 6:4); we didn’t have that capacity as unbelievers. Because we died with Christ, we have been set free from the law of sin and death (Rom 8:2). Johnson KA. Prayer: A helpful aid in recovery from depression. J Relig Health. 2018;57(6):2290-2300. doi:10.1007/s10943-018-0564-8 So “bearing fruit” is not simply done in our own strength – the glorified Christ does it through us through the agency of the Holy Spirit. As Paul writes, “the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Rom 5:5). It is this reality upon which we are to act. The Holy Spirit is not just an “idea,” but the “living presence of God” within us. Paul expresses it this way – “if by the Holy Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Rom 8:13). There is not enough strength in ourselves to bear fruit; it is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit that empowers us to do so. But we have a part – we are to abide in Christ and obey Him, and when we do God produces the fruit! (Jn 15:4-5; 1 Cor 3:6). The Holy Spirit is the “ Prime Mover” in our lives (Phil 2:12-13). As we look in the book of Acts, we find in the early Church not just a group of strong men laboring together, but the power of the Holy Spirit working in and through them, bearing fruit to the praise and glory of the risen Christ – so it must be for us also. Obviously, this is not merely a passive role on the believer’s part – for example: when Mary was told she was going to give birth to a child, she could have rejected the idea and said, “No, I don’t want it”. . . or she could have said, “I will have a child in the same way other women have children (through Joseph). . . or, she could have responded as she did: “Be it unto me according to your word” (Lk 1:38) – there was “active passivity” on Mary’s part. She took her own body, by choice, and put it into the hands of God to do the thing that He said He would do – and Jesus was born.

Stephen J. Nichols ,President, Reformation Bible College; Chief Academic Officer, Ligonier Ministries The importance of truth is that every thought, belief and identity can be broken down with the truth test. You’ve believed things your whole life that have been handed down from your parents, friends or coworkers without even realizing it.Pay attention to how you are feeling: Part of embracing spirituality means also embracing what it means to be human, both the good and the bad. The very First Commandment set forth a call to say a “strong negative” towards wanting to be in the place of God. This is the key to the whole thing – wanting to be at the center of the universe. By choice “we are to die to running our own lives and doing our own thing.” The Last Commandment, “Thou shalt not covet,” shows us that these negatives are not related just to outward behavior, but to inward attitudes. In reality, here is our death. We are to say “no” – by choice – to self at that point in living when we are confronted with things that are wrong, and that we might very well find enjoyable. Thus, here in the midst of life, where there is battle and strife, there is to be a “strong negative” – by choice, and by the grace of God. It is not, for example, a matter of waiting until we no longer have strong sexual desires, but rather than in the midst of the movement of life, surrounded by a world that grabs everything in rebellion first against God and then against its fellow man, we are to understand what Jesus means when He talks about denying ourselves and renouncing ourselves in regard to that which is not rightfully ours. Realize that the eternal connectedness is already here. Nothing needs to be done, only to become aware of it again. A Few Final Words Always turning inward and looking for answers is how you grow spiritually. Life will continue bringing you to your knees, but it’s your duty to keep your head up and continue moving forward. Knowing that this moment shall pass even when it feels that the light is so far ahead. Spirituality is inquiring into your beliefs, identity, and purpose. Ask questions like “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?”. It’s the search for truth.

Your prior childhood traumas, toxic habits, mental state, it’s all to be shed sooner or later. Sculptures aren’t created in a day. (Good ones, anyway) Be patient with yourself. Working through your inner being is a process that requires time. 3) Keep it REAL That period of examination laid the groundwork for True Spirituality. The book wasn’t published until two decades after Schaeffer’s crisis of faith. But the basic components of the book had been created by the mid-1950s in the form of camp talks and messages: twin emphases on the finished work of Christ and the need for Christians to live out their faith in all of life. Manning LK. Spirituality as a lived experience: Exploring the essence of spirituality for women in late life. Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2012;75(2):95-113. doi:10.2190/AG.75.2.a I had the occasion – it was a strange and bizarre one – to be invited to speak at the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Luncheon. That is a charismatic group. They were having their Southern California Luncheon, and somebody in the group thought that I had had the gift of tongues, that somewhere along the line I’d gotten the baptism of the Spirit and spoken in tongues, and they invited me to be the speaker. They asked me to speak on speaking in tongues. This is true. And this was when Jay Letty was still on our church staff, and he went with me. I thought they were just open and wanted to hear the other side; they thought I’d had the gift. My spirituality stems from a childhood of depression, anxiety, and loneliness. I had good parents, food, and shelter. My existence was torture, I couldn’t bear to be alive.

If you’re lost and don’t know where to even begin, below is a spirituality for beginner’s guide that covers everything you need to know (and more). A very practical thing for ourselves and for those whom we would help is that it is not always possible to sort out true guilt from psychological guilt – at this point the “iceberg concept” is helpful once again. Man is more than is on the surface. All too often the evangelical Christian acts as though there is nothing to man except that which is above the surface on the water. Since the fall man is divided from himself, and so since the fall there is that which I am which is below the surface – in psychological terms, there is the unconscious, subconscious aspect of our humanity. It should not be a surprise to any of us that there is something which we are which is deeper than that which is on the surface – hence, as we said earlier, it is not even possible to say at this given moment that we are perfect, free from all known sin. This is true even at our best moments (1 Cor 4:3-4). We all have our problems. . . we all have our storms. . . and some of us can have exceedingly deep storms. In the midst of these storms that break over us, it is wonderful to know that we ourselves do not need, in every case, to sort out true guilt from psychological guilt. God knows the line between our true guilt and our guilt feelings (Heb 4:12). Our part is to function in that which is above the surface, and to ask God to help us be honest. Our part is to cry to God for the part of the iceberg that is above the surface and confess whatever we know is true guilt there, bringing it under the infinite, finished work of Jesus Christ. . . and God graciously applies this to the whole, and gradually the Holy Spirit helps us see deeper into ourselves. Once we have applied the blood of Christ to all our known sin, we can be confident that the guilty feelings that remain are not true guilt, but a part of the awful miser-ies of fallen man. The comprehension, moment by moment, of these things is a vital step in freedom from the results of the bonds of sin, and in the substantial healing of the separation of man from himself. (123-133) urn:oclc:779107993 Scandate 20100419181337 Scanner scribe9.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Worldcat (source edition) Sanctification, according to Schaeffer, is a moment-by-moment dependence on God. It’s an internal reality, not an external gesture. True sanctification is marked by “active passivity”—by opening our hands in faith for God to use us as vehicles for his purposes (93). In Romans 12:2, we find a good starting point for our thinking tonight, and that is this statement by the apostle Paul, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”– transformed b the renewing of your mind. Many charismatics believe that you can renew your mind and achieve holiness without any conscious effort. They would say, some of them, that sanctification can come to you through an experience effortlessly, sometimes even through subliminal conditioning.

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