With these clarifications of the general nature of spiritual disciplines in mind, what are some of the specific practices that are of most use in the development of disciples? Here we need not be concerned about a complete list of such practices, and indeed there really is no such thing anyway.18 That makes it all the more important that we understand the general concept just explained. What is clear and, for our purposes, essential is that a small number of them are absolutely central to spiritual growth. They must form a part of the foundation of our whole-life plan for growth as apprentices
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