I’m calling our course “Story-Rich Spiritual Formation with Friends.” The big idea is that to be confident and joyfully obedient disciples of Jesus, we need a vision of His profound goodness, one that he has shown us in Scripture and our life experience, and which we will see more clearly as we learn to interpret our story from the perspective of God’s story.

This confidence, along with the support of a few friends, helps us embrace the deeper challenges of spiritual formation.

We will learn more about our souls, the various dimensions of thought, feeling, will, body, and relationships.

We will learn how deep and lasting change works, as well as what gets in the way.

Schedule

#1 September 14 Deep and Desirable Change is Possible: A Vision for Spiritual Formation

WHAT TO READ FOR Session #2

Supplemental Readings (optional) for Session #1

September 21 No meeting (Bairs are out of town)

#2 September 28 How Your Story Can Be a Source of Confidence in God

To see the assignment for October 5, click on the document above,
read through it, and answer the questions at the end.

#3 October 5 Noticing & Trusting God’s Faithfulness

Supplemental Readings for Session #3

#4 October 12 Noticing and Responding to God’s Glory

#5 October 19 Noticing and Responding to God’s Goodness

#6 October 26 The Dimensions of the Soul & Brokenness

#7 November 2 A Model of Change: Vision, Intention, and Means

#8 November 9 The Transformed Mind: Thought and Feeling

November 16 No Meeting (Bairs are out of town)

#9 November 23 The Transformed Will and the Effects on the Body

November 30 No Meeting (Thanksgiving Weekend)

#10 December 7 Transformed Social Dimension: Turning from Protection & Resentment to Love

#11 December 14 Looking at Our Spiritual Formation Stories I

We will have been processing all along, but these two weeks we can tell our stories, what we’re seeing and what we think God is calling to us now.

#12 December 21 Looking at Our Spiritual Formation Stories II