Spiritual Teamwork

Christian Spiritual Disciplines are the 12 to 15 Disciplines the attributed to Christ and practiced by believers through the centuries to aid in deepening their relationship with Christ. The List includes but is not limited to:

• Prayer
• Worship
• Fasting
• Scripture Study
• Service
• Stewardship

While we believe these disciplines are beneficial in deepening our walk, we do not believe that we must practice them to be saved. salvation is through grace alone.

Why Do We Believe We Need The Disciplines Today?

We believe the trend in churches today is away from discipleship and focused more on getting new believers. While bringing someone to Christ is part of our great commission from Christ, it is only one part. The second part of that commission is to make disciples. We believe that in making disciples the spiritual disciplines are the closest thing we can find modeled by Christ in his life.

In his book The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives Dallas Willard uses the analogy of an athlete that kids would model themselves after when they played ball. That athlete did not become a great athlete by sitting on the sideline he or she became a great athlete by training him or herself daily for the game. Just as these athletes performed great under pressure it is when we are under pressure that we see how well we have trained. If we have read the scriptures a little and shown up for church we may not act like our example, Christ. On the other hand if we have trained daily, when the time comes, we will not loose our cool or act inappropriately. We will be the example some young boy or girl will want to emulate because they have seen Christ in us.