Golf and Transformation

"No one in their right mind would consider their [golf] training sufficient if it only involved a daily reading and some inspiring "golf music" designed make them feel deeply about learning golf! Yet this is exactly our view of discipleship..." ~ J.P. Moreland

As you continue to look at your Rule of Life, you might find a bit of inspiration in this article by J. P. Moreland. He explains how the spiritual disciplines form us into the image of God in a similar way that physical practice improves our golf game.

Nov 15-21 Suggested Lectio: Holiness

The passages below are suggestions for reading, meditation, and Lectio this week. Feel free to post your comments or reflections about these passages. The Lectio Divina prompts are also here for your use.

Day 1: 1 Thesselonians 5:16-18
Day 2: John 1:11-14
Day 3: John 14:23-27
Day 4: Romans 5:1-5
Day 5: Romans 8:35-39
Day 6: Psalm 119 75-80
Day 7: Revelation 7:13-17

Read: Seek a phrase or verse that attracts your attention. Repeat the phrase to yourself. Savor the text.

Reflect: What meaning is offered to you as you consider the phrase or verse?

Respond: What response do you have to the word? What is God’s invitation to you?

Rest: We seek to rest in God’s transforming power and presence.

Holiness: Getting Heaven into Us

Richard Foster writes:

You see, the goal of the Christian life is not simply to get us into heaven, but to get heaven into us! God is intent upon making you and making me into "a dazzling, radient, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright, stainless mirror that reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness."

From Streams of Living Water, quoting C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity