5/7/2023 0 Comments Richard foster disciplines![]() They include both inward and outward experiences. These Spiritual Disciplines concern both group and individual life. As Elizabeth O’Connor has said, “no person or group or movement has vigor and power unless it is disciplined.” We must take up a consciously chosen course of action that places us before God in such a way that he can work the righteousness of the Kingdom into us. We need to go through a process of sowing to the Spirit, through the exercise of the classical Disciplines of the spiritual life. ![]() But such purity of heart does not just fall on our heads. ![]() ![]() In The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis says, “The life of a good man must be mighty in virtues, that he should be inwardly what he appears outwardly to others.” We need God’s life and light to transform our inner spirit so that righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit begin to pervade all we are and think. ![]()
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