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| Original Title: | The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives |
| ISBN: | 0060694424 (ISBN13: 9780060694425) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Dallas Willard
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.2 | 7468 Users | 238 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives |
| Author | : | Dallas Willard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Reissue |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | May 5th 1999 by HarperOne (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Christian. Religion. Theology. Spirituality. Christianity. Christian Living. Nonfiction. Faith |
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How to Live as Jesus LivedDallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.
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Look guys I'm hooked. I don't know if it's just my preferences (I'm sure that is part of it), but the way Dallas Willard writes feels like EXACTLY what I need when I read it. This is just my 2nd book of his to finish (Divine Conspiracy was first), but both books have provoked thoughts and ideas in my like few other books have done. This book is about the spiritual disciplines, but Willard spends the majority of the book talking about the heart behind the disciplines and why the modern churchGood.
Whoa, it took me 9 months to finish this book. I think this is more a reflection of the fact that I read three Dallas Willard books in a row, than any sort of a critique. I do think I struggled to get motivated with it, because Willard is so rock solid on his 3-4 main theses about the Christian life. And all of his trilogy (Hearing God, The Divine Conspiracy, and The Spirit of the Disciplines) are coming at these theses from different angles. So by book #3, I'm afraid I was over-familiar and no
Dallas Willard is a Southern Baptist-ordained theologian who has a refreshing way of overturning my assumptions. In The Spirit of the Disciplines, he hammers on the tendencies of people like me to slough off disciplines such as solitude, silence, fasting, and frugality in favor of more saccharine interpretations that are more mental than physical. Yet, Willard makes the case that authentic Christianity is physical and that, if Jesus became flesh and used these disciplines to enhance His
The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low
People told me I needed to give Dallas Willard a chance. And I have now, twice. I appreciate his perspectives, I guess, but he's got some sort of overly American and Dominionist trains of thought that I just cannot get on board with. And frankly, my revulsion of those few things taints my feelings for his books overall.The first half of this book is an overview of "Why" for Protestants. I don't exactly need the why at this point, but it was probably pretty good for anyone that's skeptical.
This book is a must read for anyone who claims to be a follower of Jesus. Its a challenging read, convicting, and unapologetic in its approach to the life of a disciple, but, then again, so was Jesus and his teachings.
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