Disciplines in Spiritual Formation

Goals of Spiritual Formation:

1. Ultimate: Holiness and Knowing God—Shalōm (personal integration)
2. Proximate: Living by Faith in the Gospel—Repentance and Yieldedness
3. Immediate: Nourish and maintain the proximate goal by the disciplines

Category Disciplines
Reading: in prospect—OT
in event—Gospels and Acts Word of God
in explanation—Epistles
Spoken Word
Listening
Sung Word
Study
Preaching
Singing
Receiving
Instruction Liturgy
the Gospel
Baptism
Lord’s Supper
Koinōnia – familial fellowship
Encouragement
Admonition
Guidance
Discipline
Confession
Restoration
Meditation Solitude
Preparation
Silence
Responding Prayer Repentance
Practice
to the Gospel Petition
Spoken word
Praise – to God that testifies to others
Sung word
Separation – sin, self, cosmos
Submission – Lord and church
Simplicity
Sharing
Living the Discipleship:
Hospitality
Gospel Following Christ
Service – family, church, world
Truth-telling
Peacemaking
Suffering

©Robert Milliman 2010