Disciplines.w3

Spiritual Disciplines

Relational with OthersWeek 3

There is a great market for

religious experience in our

world; there is little enthusiasm

for the patient acquisition of

virtue, little inclination to sign

up for a long term

apprenticeship in what earlier

generations of Christians called

holiness.

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson

The Gospel

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith

– and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God –

not by works, so that no one can boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

The Gospel

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus

to do good works, which God prepared in advance

for us to do.Ephesians 2:10

Disciplines

• Relational with God– Bible Focused– Prayer Focused– Heart Focused

• Relational with Others– Gathering Focused– Serving Focused– Submission Focused

Gathered Focused

• “One Another” Passages– Love One Another

• John 13:34-35

• John 15:12;17

• Romans 13:8

• Galatians 5:13-15

• Colossians 3:12-13

• 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13

• 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

• 1 Peter 1:22

• 1 Peter 4:8

• 1 John 3:11

• 1 John 3:23

Gathered Focused

• “One Another” Passages

– Serve One Another

• Romans 12:5-6; 10

• Ephesians 5:21

Gathered Focused


– Considerate of One Another

• Romans 12:16

• Romans 14:13

• 1 Corinthians 11:20-22

• Galatians 5:25-26

• Ephesians 4:25

• Ephesians 4:32

• Philippians 2:3-4

• Colossians 3:9-10

Gathered Focused


– Build Up One Another

• Romans 14:19

• Romans 15:14

• Ephesians 5:19

• Colossians 3:16

• 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 5:11

• Hebrews 3:13

• Hebrews 10:23-24

• 1 Peter 4:10

Gathered Focused


– Unified with One Another

• Romans 15:5-6

• 1 Corinthians 12:25-26

• Ephesians 4:1-3

• Philippians 2:2

• 1 Thessalonians 5:13

Gathered Focused


– Accept One Another

• Romans 15:7

• James 4:11

• James 5:9

• 1 Peter 4:9

• 1 Peter 5:5

– Forgive One Another

• James 5:16

Serving Focused

• Body of Christ

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all

its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form

one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free

—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Even so the body is not made up of one part but of

many.

1 Corinthians 12:12-14

Serving Focused

• Spiritual Gifts

There are different kinds of gifts, but the

same Spirit distributes them. There are

different kinds of service, but the same Lord.

There are different kinds of working, but in

all of them and in everyone it is the same

God at work.


Serving Focused • Spiritual Gifts

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the

common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of

wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same

Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing

by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another

prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another

speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the

interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same

Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.


Serving Focused

• Spiritual Gifts– Romans 12:6-8

– 1 Corinthians 12:8-10, 28-30

– Ephesians 4:11

– 1 Peter 4:9-11

Serving Focused

• Spiritual Gifts– Leadership

• Romans 12:8

– Administration • 1 Corinthians 12:28

– Teaching• 1 Corinthians12:28• Romans 12:7• Ephesians 4:11

– Knowledge• 1 Corinthians12:28

Serving Focused

• Spiritual Gifts– Wisdom

• 1 Corinthians12:28

– Prophecy • 1 Corinthians12:10 • Romans 12:6

– Discernment • 1 Corinthians12:10

– Exhortation • Romans 12:8

Serving Focused

• Spiritual Gifts– Shepherding

• Ephesians 4:11

– Faith • 1 Corinthians12:9

– Evangelism • Ephesians 4:11

Submission Focused

• Submission

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:21

Submission Focused

• Submission

Have confidence in your leaders and

submit to their authority, because they

keep watch over you as those who must

give an account. Do this so that their work

will be a joy, not a burden, for that would

be of no benefit to you.

Hebrews 13:17

Submission Focused • Submission

Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human

authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority,

or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do

wrong and to commend those who do right. For it is God’s will

that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of

foolish people. Live as free people, but do not use your

freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. Show

proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear

God, honor the emperor.

1 Peter 2:13-17

Summary

• Working out our salvation toward one another helps us, and others, grow closer to Christ.

• Following Christ results in counter cultural lifestyles.

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