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Participation in God’s Grand Plan Part 2 – Maintaining Holiness
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Participation in God’s Grand Plan
Participation in God’s Grand Plan
Part 2 – Maintaining HolinessPart 2 – Maintaining Holiness
Maintaining HolinessMaintaining Holiness
• Holiness is a relationship
• Holiness does not occur by accident
• Holy people cultivate holy habits
• Holiness is not “works righteousness”
• Holiness is a relationship
• Holiness does not occur by accident
• Holy people cultivate holy habits
• Holiness is not “works righteousness”
activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken,
to bring our personality and total being
into effective cooperation with the divine order.
activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken,
to bring our personality and total being
into effective cooperation with the divine order.
Defining DisciplinesDefining Disciplines
DallasDallas Willard
Inward DisciplinesOutward Disciplines
Corporate Disciplines
Inward DisciplinesOutward Disciplines
Corporate Disciplines
Describing DisciplinesDescribing Disciplines
DallasDallas Willard
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
MeditationDesiring to know Godmore intimately welisten to God’s word
andreflect on God’s
works.
MeditationDesiring to know Godmore intimately welisten to God’s word
andreflect on God’s
works.
INWARD DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Prayer • Desiring to want
what God wants, “to love the things he loves, to will the things he wills,” we approach the Father as a child to listen and converse.
Prayer • Desiring to want
what God wants, “to love the things he loves, to will the things he wills,” we approach the Father as a child to listen and converse.
INWARD DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
FastingDesiring to deepen withinourselves a “sense of
one’sdependence upon thestrength of God” wevoluntarily abstain fromeating (or some otheractivity) to sensitize ourawareness of God’sprovision.
FastingDesiring to deepen withinourselves a “sense of
one’sdependence upon thestrength of God” wevoluntarily abstain fromeating (or some otheractivity) to sensitize ourawareness of God’sprovision.
INWARD DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Study Desiring to “add content toour understanding so as toprovide direction,” we
studyGod’s Word as well as otherwritten and non-writtenResources (nature,conversations,experiences, etc.).
Study Desiring to “add content toour understanding so as toprovide direction,” we
studyGod’s Word as well as otherwritten and non-writtenResources (nature,conversations,experiences, etc.).
INWARD DISCIPLINES
Student Handout #1Student Handout #1
“Practicing the
Inward Disciplines”
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Simplicity Desiring that nothingdistract us from our focus onGod and the accomplishmentof His will on earth as it is inheaven, we experiencefreedom by cultivating a
“joyfulunconcern for possessions”
inrecognizing a) what we havecomes from God, b) is God’sto protect, c) and is availableto others.
Simplicity Desiring that nothingdistract us from our focus onGod and the accomplishmentof His will on earth as it is inheaven, we experiencefreedom by cultivating a
“joyfulunconcern for possessions”
inrecognizing a) what we havecomes from God, b) is God’sto protect, c) and is availableto others.
OUTWARD DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Solitude Desiring increasedsensitivity to God’s words,feelings, and actions, weseparate from the
fellowshipof community for solitudeand silence so that ourmessage and behaviorswill be authentically Christlike upon our return tocommunity.
Solitude Desiring increasedsensitivity to God’s words,feelings, and actions, weseparate from the
fellowshipof community for solitudeand silence so that ourmessage and behaviorswill be authentically Christlike upon our return tocommunity.
OUTWARD DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Submission Desiring to live under thereign of God, we experiencefreedom by laying down theterrible burden of alwaysneeding to get our own way”and allowing the dreamsAnd plans of others tobecome important to us. Wesubmit to God and His Wordand to “human authority.”
Submission Desiring to live under thereign of God, we experiencefreedom by laying down theterrible burden of alwaysneeding to get our own way”and allowing the dreamsAnd plans of others tobecome important to us. Wesubmit to God and His Wordand to “human authority.”
OUTWARD DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
ServiceDesiring freedom fromarrogance, possessiveness,envy, resentment, orcovetousness, and desiringto love practically as Jesusloved, we serve God andothers through the ministryof hospitality, listening,bearing the burdens ofothers, and sharing theword of life.
ServiceDesiring freedom fromarrogance, possessiveness,envy, resentment, orcovetousness, and desiringto love practically as Jesusloved, we serve God andothers through the ministryof hospitality, listening,bearing the burdens ofothers, and sharing theword of life.
OUTWARD DISCIPLINES
Student Handout #2Student Handout #2
“Practicing the
Outward Disciplines”
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
ConfessionDesiring to live transformedlives, we admit our sins toHim and to some spirituallymature, wise,compassionate Christianwith good common senseand the ability to keep aconfidence. We also receiveconfessions.
ConfessionDesiring to live transformedlives, we admit our sins toHim and to some spirituallymature, wise,compassionate Christianwith good common senseand the ability to keep aconfidence. We also receiveconfessions.
CORPORATE DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
WorshipDesiring to respond toGod’s love, weintentionally place
ourselvesin His presence with holyexpectation knowing
that “tostand before the Holy
Oneof eternity is to change.”
WorshipDesiring to respond toGod’s love, weintentionally place
ourselvesin His presence with holyexpectation knowing
that “tostand before the Holy
Oneof eternity is to change.”
CORPORATE DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
GuidanceDesiring to discern the willof God in community, wehumbly turn to others tohear the will of God. Wegather a group of people,share our vision, probe theissue, pray, question,search, worship, and waiton God to reveal His will.
GuidanceDesiring to discern the willof God in community, wehumbly turn to others tohear the will of God. Wegather a group of people,share our vision, probe theissue, pray, question,search, worship, and waiton God to reveal His will.
CORPORATE DISCIPLINES
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
Relationship – Enhancing Activities
CelebrationDesiring to be saved fromtaking ourselves tooseriously, we engage insinging, dancing, shouting,laughing, and making noise,lots of noise, as we give ourattention to that which Godprovided for our joy.
CelebrationDesiring to be saved fromtaking ourselves tooseriously, we engage insinging, dancing, shouting,laughing, and making noise,lots of noise, as we give ourattention to that which Godprovided for our joy.
CORPORATE DISCIPLINES
Student Handout #3Student Handout #3
“Practicing the
Corporate Disciplines”
Small Group DiscussionSmall Group Discussion
1. Share a discipline you have 1. Share a discipline you have selected to practice. State when, selected to practice. State when, where and how you expect to where and how you expect to practice this discipline.practice this discipline.
2. Discuss the potential benefits to 2. Discuss the potential benefits to practicing this discipline.practicing this discipline.
3. Discuss the potential dangers to 3. Discuss the potential dangers to practicing this discipline.practicing this discipline.
Recommended ReadingRecommended Reading
HOLINESS
Sanctification: a layman’s guide by H. Ray Dunning
Studies in Sanctificationby Edward Read
Holiness for Ordinary People
by Keith DruryEntire Sanctification
by J. Kenneth Grider
HOLINESS
Sanctification: a layman’s guide by H. Ray Dunning
Studies in Sanctificationby Edward Read
Holiness for Ordinary People
by Keith DruryEntire Sanctification
by J. Kenneth Grider
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
With Unveiled Faces by Keith Drury
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
Spiritual Disciplines 101by Beacon Hill Press
The Spirit of the Disciplines
by Dallas Willard
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES
With Unveiled Faces by Keith Drury
Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
Spiritual Disciplines 101by Beacon Hill Press
The Spirit of the Disciplines
by Dallas Willard
