SF 103 INTEGRITY OVERVIEW
A.
HOW SIN WORKS IN OUR LIVES
HOW WE GROW IN HOLINESS
1
2
3
4
Intro to
Integrity
Growing
in Grace
Flesh
Seven
Deadly
Sins
Define
flesh
Honestly
Examine Understand Explore Understand Explore Review key
assess
how your and grow in
what it
and
the fruits of semester
where sin specific sin fear of the
means to
practice
the Spirit
concepts
has taken
operates,
Lord
‘walk by the
spiritual
root in our what payoff
Spirit’
disciplines
own lives
you hope
(Gal 5:16)
for from the
sin, and
what habits
and ways of
thinking the
sin stems
from
Introduce
Examine
Integrity
and utilize
and
five
reconnect characterist
with group
ics of
members
growing in
grace for
spiritual
health
diagnosis
5/6
B.
7
A Letter Fear of
From
the Lord
Your
Tempter
8
9
Spirit
Spiritual
10
11
Fruit of Growing
Disciplines the Spirit
in
Integrity
Spiritual Disciplines
Session 9
SF103 Curriculum Training
Fall 2010
SF 103 INTEGRITY OVERVIEW
HOW SIN WORKS IN OUR LIVES
5/6
HOW WE GROW IN HOLINESS
1
2
3
4
7
Intro to
Integrity
Growing
in Grace
Flesh
Seven
Deadly
Sins
Introduce
Examine
Integrity
and utilize
and
five
reconnect characterist
with group
ics of
members
growing in
grace for
spiritual
health
diagnosis
Define
flesh
Honestly
Examine Understan Explore Understan Explore Review key
assess
how your d and grow
what it
d and
the fruits of semester
where sin specific sin in fear of
means to
practice
the Spirit
concepts
has taken
operates,
the Lord ‘walk by the
spiritual
root in our what payoff
Spirit’
disciplines
own lives
you hope
(Gal 5:16)
for from the
sin, and
what habits
and ways of
thinking the
sin stems
from
A Letter Fear of
From
the Lord
Your
Tempter
8
9
Spirit
Spiritual
10
11
Fruit of Growing
Disciplines the Spirit
in
Integrity
Spiritual Formation:
“The process by which God forms Christ’s
character in believers by the ministry of the
Spirit, in the context of community, and in
accordance with biblical standards. This
process involves the transformation of the
whole person in thoughts, behaviors and
styles of relating to God and others. It
results in a life of service to others and
witness to Christ.”
Spiritual Formation:
“The process by which God forms Christ’s
character in believers by the ministry of the
Spirit, in the context of community, and in
accordance with biblical standards. This
process involves the transformation of the
whole person in thoughts, behaviors and
styles of relating to God and others. It
results in a life of service to others and
witness to Christ.”
“When we despair of gaining inner
transformation through human powers of will
and determination, we are open to a wonderful
new realization: inner righteousness is a gift
from God to be graciously received. The
needed change within us is God’s work, not
ours…The Disciplines allow us to place
ourselves before God so that he can
transform us…By themselves the Spiritual
Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get
us to the place where something can be done.”
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
“When we despair of gaining inner
transformation through human powers of will
and determination, we are open to a wonderful
new realization: inner righteousness is a gift
from God to be graciously received. The
needed change within us is God’s work, not
ours…The Disciplines allow us to place
ourselves before God so that he can
transform us…By themselves the Spiritual
Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get
us to the place where something can be done.”
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
A farmer …
“This is the way it is with the Spiritual
Disciplines—they are a way of sowing to the
Spirit. The Disciplines are God’s way of
getting us into the ground; they put us where
he can work within us and transform us.”
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
“Spiritual practices don’t give us ‘spiritual
brownie points’ or help us ‘work the
system’ for a passing grade with God.
They simply put us in a place where we
can begin to notice God and respond to
his word to us.”
Adele Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
“Spiritual practices don’t give us ‘spiritual
brownie points’ or help us ‘work the
system’ for a passing grade with God.
They simply put us in a place where we
can begin to notice God and respond to
his word to us.”
Adele Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
Spiritual Disciplines are “nothing but an
activity undertaken to bring us into more
effective cooperation with Christ and his
Kingdom.”
Dallas Willard, Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
Spiritual Disciplines are “nothing but an
activity undertaken to bring us into more
effective cooperation with Christ and his
Kingdom.”
Dallas Willard, Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“We can become like Christ by doing one thing—by
following him in the overall style of life he chose
for himself...We can, through faith and grace,
become like Christ by practicing the types of
activities he engaged in, by arranging our whole
lives around the activities he himself practiced in
order to remain constantly at home in the
fellowship of his Father.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“We can become like Christ by doing one thing—by
following him in the overall style of life he chose
for himself...We can, through faith and grace,
become like Christ by practicing the types of
activities he engaged in, by arranging our whole
lives around the activities he himself practiced in
order to remain constantly at home in the
fellowship of his Father.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“What activities did Jesus practice? Such things as
solitude and silence, prayer, simple and sacrificial
living, intense study and meditation upon God’s
Word and God’s ways, and service to others. Some
of these will certainly be even more necessary to us
than they were to him, because of our greater or
different need. But in a balanced life of such
activities, we will be constantly enlivened by ‘The
Kingdom Not of This World’—the Kingdom of
Truth as seen in John 18:36-37.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“What activities did Jesus practice? Such things as
solitude and silence, prayer, simple and sacrificial
living, intense study and meditation upon God’s
Word and God’s ways, and service to others. Some
of these will certainly be even more necessary to us
than they were to him, because of our greater or
different need. But in a balanced life of such
activities, we will be constantly enlivened by
‘The Kingdom Not of This World’—the
Kingdom of Truth as seen in John 18:36-37.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
An athlete in training…
“no one ever says, ‘If you want to be a great
athlete, go vault eighteen feet, run the mile under
four minutes,’ or ‘If you want to be a great
musician, play the Beethoven violin concerto.’
Instead, we advise the young artist or athlete to
enter a certain kind of overall life, one involving
deep associations with qualified people as well
as rigorously scheduled time, diet, and activity
for the mind and body.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“Our mistake is to think that following Jesus
consists in loving our enemies, going the
‘second mile,’ turning the other cheek,
suffering patiently and hopefully—while living
the rest of our lives just as everyone around
us does…If we wish to follow Christ—and to
walk in the easy yoke with him—we will have to
accept his overall way of life as our way of life
totally.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“Our mistake is to think that following Jesus
consists in loving our enemies, going the
‘second mile,’ turning the other cheek,
suffering patiently and hopefully—while living
the rest of our lives just as everyone around
us does…If we wish to follow Christ—and to
walk in the easy yoke with him—we will have to
accept his overall way of life as our way of life
totally.”
Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes
“But the news about Him was spreading
even farther, and large crowds were
gathering to hear Him and to be
healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus
Himself would often slip away to the
wilderness and pray.”
Luke 5:15-16
Discuss at your table
1. According to the gospel accounts, what disciplines
did Jesus practice? As a way of “sowing to the
Spirit” or “cooperating with Christ and His
Kingdom,” what are some ways that you can you
incorporate these disciplines this semester?
2. What are some ways that you could bring some
spiritual disciplines into your SF group?
Resources
Barton, Ruth Haley, Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives For Spiritual
Transformation
Calhoun, Adele, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
Ford, Leighton, The Attentive Life: Discerning God’s Presence in All Things
Foster, Richard, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
Willard, Dallas, Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes
Lives
Resources
Dallas Willard’s website:
www.dwillard.org
Gary Thomas’ website:
www.garythomas.com
Ruth Haley Barton’s Transforming Center:
www.thetransformingcenter.org