Spiritual Formation and Discipleship

Overview
This 8-week course (meeting 4 times) introduces the biblical and theological principles of spiritual formation. Particular attention will be devoted to how individuals grow in deeper communion and intimacy with their triune God by cultivating a biblically balanced and healthy practice of spiritual rhythms. Learners will also focus on ways their own continual process of growth can contribute to Spirit-empowered transformation in others’ lives. 

Learners engage with the Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us (2015), Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines (2016), and Discipleship That Fits: The Five Kinds of Relationships God Uses to Help Us Grow.(2016). – available at Amazon.com

Intended Competencies
Our learning together in community helps learners be able to:

• • • Articulate and apply biblical and theological principles regarding spiritual formation for personal and communal discipleship
    • Analyze one’s own desires, passions, attitudes, gifts, skills, and strengths in order to shape spiritual health for Christian leaders who invest in the spiritual lives of others
    • Increase awareness of the complexity and messiness of local, historical, and global church ministry contexts
    • Develop and begin implementing a realistic plan to cultivate an environment for personal and communal transformation with Christ