One subscriber emailed his thoughts to me and I wanted to share them here for you:
Love this. From Ignatius of Loyola to the Benedictine order to John Mark Comer, everyone has a plan. For me it is the position of the Disciplines.
Clearly they are not the end, they’re the means. So — and this might only make sense to me — I want the life I’m living to demand the disciplines, not the other way around. I want to step out in faith beyond my comfort, control and ability to the place of deeper dependence that disciplines support. I want my life to need them. I want my life to pull them out of me not them pulling me into a more spiritual life. Disciplines follow faith, they don’t produce it.
Same question for you: How do you make structure & discipline part of spiritual life and not look at structure as the opposite of spirituality?
What do you say?
One subscriber emailed his thoughts to me and I wanted to share them here for you:
Love this. From Ignatius of Loyola to the Benedictine order to John Mark Comer, everyone has a plan. For me it is the position of the Disciplines.
Clearly they are not the end, they’re the means. So — and this might only make sense to me — I want the life I’m living to demand the disciplines, not the other way around. I want to step out in faith beyond my comfort, control and ability to the place of deeper dependence that disciplines support. I want my life to need them. I want my life to pull them out of me not them pulling me into a more spiritual life. Disciplines follow faith, they don’t produce it.
This change in perspective helps me.