{"id":91,"date":"2011-10-09T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingtheology.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:47:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:47:16","slug":"celebration-of-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingtheology.com\/celebration-of-discipline\/ ","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Richard Foster’s<\/a> excellent book, “Celebration of Discipline, The Path to Spiritual Growth”<\/a>\"\"
\n explores many of the classical spiritual disciplines: meditation, prayer, fasting, simplicity, solitude, submission, service, confession, worship, guidance, and celebration. Foster \u00a0shares from his own experience and involvement with the Quakers<\/a>. While he does quote from many of the leaders of the Friends Church he by no means limits himself to this stream of the Christian Faith. He pulls from many of the influential voices through out Christian history.<\/p>\n

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I know you might be thinking that a book about the Christian\u00a0spiritual\u00a0disciplines is probably quite dry and lacking lustre. That is usually what has kept me from any such titles in the past. Actually this book is quite full of energy and life. He indeed challenges the reader to consider that some of the disciplines do take some real effort, but he is so very quick to qualify these notions with the reality of the life that is behind all of these disciplines. A whole chapter is about “Celebration” and joy.<\/p>\n

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