Central Assembly

HOW DO WE FEED OURSELVES ON THE LIFE OF JESUS?

> Wrestle with who Jesus really is

> Turn the spiritual disciplines into ‘doorways,’ not ‘duties’

INWARD ---------- OUTWARD ---------- CORPORATE
Meditation -------- Simplicity -------------- Confession
Prayer ------------- Solitude --------------- Worship
Fasting ------------ Submission----------- Guidance
Study -------------- Service ---------------- Celebration

“Vast numbers of ordinary folk have taken into their own lives disciplines of the spiritual life that reflect the overall life of Jesus himself. And, they have indeed discovered these Spiritual Disciplines to be the means of God’s grace for the formation and transformation of heart and mind and spirit and body and soul.”
- Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline

HOW DO WE FEED OURSELVES ON THE LIFE OF JESUS?

> Wrestle with who Jesus really is

> Turn the spiritual disciplines into ‘doorways,’ not ‘duties’

> Pursue the presence of Jesus all day long

“A pitfall of Christian living is that we tend to compartmentalize our spiritual experience. We have our prayer time, Bible reading time, church time, family devotion time; but what God desires most from us is that our communion with HIm begins with rising in the morning and continues unbroken throughout the day.

"Times for devotion and churchgoing are important; however, those activities ought to be threads that run through the warp and woof of our Christian experience, not separate fragments of cloth attached to the spiritual fabric of our lives.”
- John Maempa, "Practicing His Presence”

HOW DO WE FEED OURSELVES ON THE LIFE OF JESUS?

> Wrestle with who Jesus really is

> Turn the spiritual disciplines into ‘doorways,’ not ‘duties’

> Pursue the presence of Jesus all day long

> Participate in Christ’s cross through the Bread and the Cup