Formed
Byron White
New Life Church
June 30, 2024

“If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.”
-Cheshire Cat

“So we must never forget that the most important thing happening at any moment, in the midst of all our (lives and duties), is the kind of people we are becoming.”
Dallas Willard, The Great Omission

"The modern church is facing a crisis of discipleship. It’s not that people don’t want to become like Jesus, or that people aren’t trying to become like Jesus. It’s that we don’t know how to become like Jesus." -JohnMark Comer

How does formation occur?
God's Responsibility vs. Our Responsibility

Many of us treat Spiritual Formation in one of two ways:

“My job is to creatively and wisely engage in those activities that will give God a chance to work in my life.”
-John Ortberg

How are we Formed?

Dr. Todd Hall - The Connected Life

3 important factors in spiritual formation:

1. Contemplative Prayer