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Celebration Of Discipline Book Report

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Celebration of Discipline, written by Richard Foster, is a world renowned book that has shaped the lives of those who read it and put its words into practice. When I first started my relationship with the Lord, my small group leader gave me this book to guide me in learning about inward, outward and corporate disciplines and how I could put them into practice in my life. The truths in this book has shaped my walk with the Lord and are important concepts to grasp for effective discipleship. Foster titles the first chapter “The Spiritual Disciplines: Door to Liberation,” and the title itself is the first important truth.. Though is may seem difficult to find freedom and joy in disciplines like fasting or meditation, when you read each discipline …show more content…

Growing up, our church had week long fasting prayers every month, and I never understood the purpose behind why we did it. As I began to develop a personal relationship with the Lord, and started to read and study the heart behind fasting, and it started to become a need more than something to check off the list. Foster reveals through the chapter that fasting is all about motive (Matt 6:16-18). If we are fasting to manipulate God into doing what we want our effort goes to waste. “Fasting must forever center around God. It must be God-initiated and God-ordained.” We lay down things that may control us through fasting, to bring them to the surface and let the Lord walk us through uprooting them from our …show more content…

In the first couple of paragraphs of this chapter, Foster writes, “The purpose of Spiritual Disciplines is the total transformation of the person. They aim at replacing old destructive habits of thought with new life-giving habits.” In the discipline of study, this is the main purpose! Studying the word of God, books written by men and women of God who have gone before us will build and shape us to lay down our old habits and fill them with life giving habits given through scripture and wisdom from heroes of the past. Through Foster’s four steps of study which include repetition, concentration, comprehension, and reflection we I understand that reading is more than gaining knowledge, put applying the words into your life causing life changing

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