"A 'spiritual life' consists in that range of activities in which people cooperatively interact with God -- and with the spiritual order deriving from God's personality and action. And what is the result? A new overall quality of human existence with corresponding new powers.
A person is a 'spiritual person' to the degree that his or her life is correctly integrated into and dominated by God's spiritual Kingdom. ...
The [spiritual] disciplines are activities of mind and body purposefully undertaken, to bring our personality and total being into effective cooperation with the divine order. They enable us to more and more live in power that is, strictly speaking, beyond us, deriving from the spiritual realm itself, as we 'yield ourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto God,' as Romans 6:13 puts it."
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
No comments:
Post a Comment