Comments on: The Future of Christian Spirituality: Part 3 | A Spirituality that is Practice-Oriented and Practice-Based https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/ Strengthen The Soul Of Your Leadership Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Ruth Barton https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733592 Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:46:50 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733592 In reply to Rodney Page.

So glad to hear it!

]]> By: Ruth Barton https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733577 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:18:26 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733577 In reply to Larry McGuire.

“Grounded in curiosity and less certainty other than God is always present.” Love this!

]]> By: Ruth Barton https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733576 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:17:15 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733576 In reply to Connie Nicholson.

Amen, sister!

]]> By: Rodney Page https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733575 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:57:56 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733575 So much of what has been achieved through me has come from this awareness and practice of Solitude and Silence. Thank you for being an inspiration in my life through your writings and gifts!]]> “Ruth you are like a jar of river water all shaken up. What you need is to sit still long enough so the sediment can settle, and the water can become clear.”

I first read these words in your book “Invitation to Solitude and Silence” in 2004 as I began my first retirement/rewirement. Here I am again, 20 years later, in full retirement and grappling again with the necessary practice of Solitude and Silence. I am back in the cave with Elijah, waiting and listening! I also frequent Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.😀

So much of what has been achieved through me has come from this awareness and practice of Solitude and Silence. Thank you for being an inspiration in my life through your writings and gifts!

]]> By: Connie Nicholson https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733567 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:22:11 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733567 I joined a “Fit Body Boot Camp” gym last month and find myself thinking about parallels between practice-based spirituality and physical exercise. How often are we so flooded with devotional options that we freeze and don’t do any of them? At the Boot Camp, the exercises have been carefully pre-selected and are set-up around the room. I can literally turn my brain off and rotate through the stations getting a full-body workout. I wonder if we’d experience transformation in this way allowing a ‘Spiritual Trainer’ to set our pace and choose our ‘exercises’ – at least until we’ve gotten into a grove of being aware of our needs/seasons as well as have accumulated a toolbox of practices to engage in on our own. A “Spiritual Bootcamp”…hmm. Then again, we achievers would probably turn it into another box to check for our day and separate our spirituality from the sacredness of life, but there’s got to be a way, a process, a path to invite us all to engage in these practices as a way to establish healthy routines and to experience God. Thanks for your article. It’s encouraging me to consider how to creatively invite people into experiential places. My children (in their 20’s) are not looking for a belief-system, but for an experience. We’ve got to do better.

]]> By: Deb https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733565 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:18:35 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733565 This is spot on! I have been practicing Lectio Divina for 1 year and it has been life changing-spirit life changing, Hard to find like minded seekers in today’s church tho. They are more concerned about “correct theology” or trying to use God to give them a prosperous life

]]> By: Larry McGuire https://transformingcenter.org/2024/03/the-future-of-christian-spirituality-part-3-a-spirituality-that-is-practice-oriented-and-practice-based/#comment-733554 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:52:50 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=18352#comment-733554 Thank you for this many-sided reflection. I am one who believes that our discipleship is that we are to become disciples and communities of practice. Included in this idea is that practices are grounded in curiosity and less in certainty other than God is always present.

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