Living the Mission Quotes

“The disciple is one who, intent upon becoming Christ-like and so dwelling in his “faith and practice,” systematically and progressively rearranges his affairs to that end.”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit

“When Jesus walked among humankind there was a certain simplicity to being his disciple. Primarily it meant to go with him, in an attitude of observation, study, obedience, and imitation. There were no correspondence courses. One knew what to do and what it would cost.”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit

“Freedom comes not from the absence of restraint but from the presence of discipline.”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit

“Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot do. And God graciously uses this process to produce in us the kind of person who automatically will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit

“The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God. After that they have come to the end of their usefulness. But it is enough.”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit

“A Spiritual Discipline is an intentionally directed action by which we do what we can do in order to receive from God the ability (or power) to do what we cannot achieve by direct effort.”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit

“over many centuries and through multiple human authors, God has so superintended the development of the Bible that it speaks to us about real life (zoë) and teaches us how to live “with God”
― Renovare, Living the Mission: A Spiritual Formation Guide – An Acts Study to Follow Jesus and Experience the Holy Spirit