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Jesus says, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. Following Jesus would seem to be one of the most challenging quests we can face. Yet, Jesus also tells us: Take My yoke and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. How can both of those teachings be true? During this In-Depth episode, Spencer and Adam chat about how he started Catalyst, his first gospel encounters, and Adams advice to his younger self.
Adam is the pioneer and visionary leader of Catalyst Ministries, a training and global outreach mission for the next generation. With the heart of a father and the voice of a prophet, Adam is a unique messenger of the Lord and ministers regularly in churches, ministry schools and conferences around the world. Often training in areas of Freedom, Power Evangelism and Hearing God's Voice, Adam is committed to seeing the Holy Spirit restore hearts and revive churches with New Testament life, a work which he believes is critical for preparing God's people for the most glorious invasion of Heaven on Earth.
Extra content from KLC: Bill Heth November 9, Jizelle Miller October 1, Ashley Nirmalnath September 6, Carter Lloyd August 8, Which one is going to lead you to more life? Page 82, I found that Keith J. Matthews had me in his corner right up almost until the end. Matthews likened discipleship for Yeshua as being an apprentice to a plumber.
I was barely a sentence into chapter four before I found myself with more comments. Bill Hull speaks of spiritual formation being a lifelong development, and how it is a life of suffering. Hardly a promising start, Hull. I mean, how is it measured? If you die young, did you fail?
Death is the finish line? Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that this was not the path to go spiritual formation. On what planet is it wrong to merely fantasize? Anyway, two sentences later, it says: I mean, come on!
Sexual temptation followed by breast? This came to me with a homophobic undertone. There is no such thing as perfect! Some parts of Christianity and Messianic Judaism need to realize that all four parts of the LGBT are in and of themselves legitimate and accurate and real and okay. I found nothing I disagree with in this chapter. I found myself not connecting with Bruce Demarest at all on the Trinity.
Christians tend to believe in a Triune God, whereas I do not. Normally, I try to be open-minded about the beliefs of someone else, but this book already had a couple anti-gay parts by the time I felt the urge to throw in the towel come page This is a direct quote: Couples in marriage ceremonies often merge two candles into one, symbolizing the two becoming one flesh. As within the Trinity, relations between marriage partners are characterized by self-giving, unconditional loving, mutual affirmation, promoting the welfare of the other, and sheer delight at being together.
As happily married couples can testify this rich union often is experientially felt.
In order to have a marriage characterized as self-giving, being unconditionally loving, mutually affirming, that promotes the welfare of the other, to have the sheer delight of being together, to b e a rich union which is experientially felt, and to function as living icons of Yeshua to one another, you must be straight according to Bruce Demarest.
This is where I began skim-reading for the rest of the book; from page on until the end of the epilogue. There were also questions throughout this book that were clearly aimed for a minister or faith formator. One that stuck out to be as rather odd was at the end of the intro. This is fine, but I, for one, will not be endeavoring to see kingdom life communities springing up left and right. I walk away from this book feeling insulted, actually.
The epilogue listed numerous groups of people, but conveniently left out the LGBT; so I conclude that the Kingdom Life and this form of Spiritual Formation is only for those whom are capable of being sexually aroused by the opposite sex and find no arousal whatsoever for the same sex. I give this one star and suggest that every copy be used to start a campfire because this is not the way of God.
As happily married couples can testify this rich union often is experientially felt. Often training in areas of Freedom, Power Evangelism and Hearing God's Voice, Adam is committed to seeing the Holy Spirit restore hearts and revive churches with New Testament life, a work which he believes is critical for preparing God's people for the most glorious invasion of Heaven on Earth. Every one of God's commandments was given to us because he loves us, not to add burdens to our lives. It represents a sympathetic dialogue with Dallas Willard, and a worked out attempt to put into practice in a number of contexts his thought. Dec 09, Timothy L. I give this one star and suggest that every copy be used to start a campfire because this is not the way of God.
I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is a book that, in my opinion, had one over-arching point. The idea of spiritual formation. It talks about spirital formation in different contexts. Not only personally, but in communities of faith, such as churches. The authors of this book really go to argue that churches today are not doing enough to get people to live as Christians. It's the idea that churches have people baptized and to believe to save their souls, but it's more of a quick fix until they meet G I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's the idea that churches have people baptized and to believe to save their souls, but it's more of a quick fix until they meet God.
This book argues that the church needs to do more, to basically practice what's being preached to them, and getting them to apply the teachings of the Gospel to their life. One of my favorite parts of this book is the idea they bring out of resurrection life. As a training pastor, I will say that this reminds me of the book of Romans, Ch 6, where the Apostle Paul outlines the idea of being dead to sin through faith in Jesus Christ, but alive in Christ through our faith.
Hence the idea that through our faith, we not only share in His crucifixion, but also share in his resurrection. In the Bible, Paul argues that you should sin no more. The author doesn't talk about this necessary, but it creates a eschatological tension of the already, but not yet. I want to reiterate that I really, really enjoyed this book. It makes a really good point about the church, and improvements that it can make. Dec 14, Jeff Noble rated it it was ok. This book is an important one.
Each chapter is a needed read for leaders and churches wanting to truly embrace discipleship and the intentional spiritual formation of Christians.
To that extent, it disappointed. My other This book is an important one. Nor does it describe churches or ministries that have organized around the principles.
The last three chapters, I had to use toothpicks to hold open my eyelids. Oct 18, Rob rated it liked it Shelves: Not a lot of new concepts for me, but a good overview all in one place. A few of the chapters could be standalone resources to introduce people to certain topics e.