Summary of Donald S. Whitney's Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

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#1 Discipline is important in the Christian life, and it is important to understand what you will become. God’s elect will ultimately conform to the image of Christ, and until then, they are to grow toward it.

#2 The pursuit of holiness is not what qualifies us to see the Lord. It’s the Lord who qualifies us to see Him. We cannot produce enough righteousness to impress God and gain admittance into heaven. Instead, we can only stand before God in the righteousness that has been earned by another, Jesus Christ.

#3 The Bible teaches that Christians should discipline themselves in order to become mature and godly. The only road to Christian maturity and godliness passes through the practice of the Spiritual Disciplines.

#4 The Spiritual Disciplines are the habits of devotion and experiential Christianity that have been practiced by the people of God since biblical times. They are the means of blessings for followers of Jesus and a part of their growth in godliness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822542174

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Insights on Donald S. Whitney's Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Discipline is important in the Christian life, and it is important to understand what you will become. God’s elect will ultimately conform to the image of Christ, and until then, they are to grow toward it.

#2

The pursuit of holiness is not what qualifies us to see the Lord. It’s the Lord who qualifies us to see Him. We cannot produce enough righteousness to impress God and gain admittance into heaven. Instead, we can only stand before God in the righteousness that has been earned by another, Jesus Christ.

#3

The Bible teaches that Christians should discipline themselves in order to become mature and godly. The only road to Christian maturity and godliness passes through the practice of the Spiritual Disciplines.

#4

The Spiritual Disciplines are the habits of devotion and experiential Christianity that have been practiced by the people of God since biblical times. They are the means of blessings for followers of Jesus and a part of their growth in godliness.

#5

The Bible contains a collection of activities called the Spiritual Disciplines. These are practices that cultivate generally being like Jesus, and they are not attitudes. They are things you do. The goal of practicing a given Discipline is not about doing as much as it is about being, which is being like Jesus.

#6

The Spiritual Disciplines are practices derived from the gospel, not divorced from it. When they are practiced correctly, they take us deeper into the gospel of Jesus and its glories, not away from it.

#7

The Spiritual Disciplines are those personal and interpersonal activities given by God in the Bible as the sufficient means believers in Jesus Christ are to use in the pursuit of godliness, which is both closeness to Christ and conformity to Christ.

#8

The most important feature of any Spiritual Discipline is its purpose. Godliness is the single purpose that unites them. When God changes us through people and circumstances, He works mainly from the outside in. But when He changes us through the Disciplines, He works mainly from the inside out.

#9

The Spiritual Disciplines are the means by which we receive God’s grace and grow in Christlikeness. They are the things we must do, but they are not the things that make us more holy. The desire and the power for them come from the grace of God, but we must practice them to receive his grace.

#10

The Spiritual Disciplines are ways by which we can place ourselves in the path of God’s grace and seek Him. We can do this by means of the Bible, or any of the other spiritual practices that the Lord has ordained and revealed in Scripture.

#11

The Lord Jesus not only expects these biblical Spiritual Disciplines from those who follow Him, but He is