Teaching Session Topics
- God has a Plan, Place, and Purpose
- Knowing God
- Understanding My Heart
- Following Jesus
- God's Word - Daily Necessity
- Cost of Non-Discipleship
- Purpose of Spiritual Disciplines
- Holy Spirit - Costly Neglect
- Listening to God
- Commitment to Follow Jesus
- Developing a Plan of Spiritual Disciplines
- Work - God's Idea
Pre-Reading
- The Great Omission - Dallas Willard
- Forgotten God - Francis Chan
- Selected articles by various authors
Quotes from "The Great Omission" - Dallas Willard
On becoming a disciple:
"Who, among Christians today, is a disciple of Jesus, in any substantive sense of the word 'disciple'? A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice — a practitioner, even if only a beginner." (xi)
On our walk with Christ:
"If it doesn't work at all, or only in fits and starts, that is because we do not give ourselves to it in a way that allows our lives to be taken over by it. Perhaps we have never been told what to do. We are misinformed about 'our part' in eternal living. Or we have just learned the 'faith and practice' of some group we have fillen in with, not that of Jesus himself." (x)
Selected Quotes from "Forgotten God" - Francis Chan
"From my perspective, the Holy Spirit is tragically neglected and, for all practical purposes, forgotten." (p. 15)
"I beleive that this missing "something" is actually a missing "Someone" — namely, the Holy Spirit. Without Him, people operate in their own strength and only accomplish human-size results. The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers living in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives in supernature." (p. 16-17)