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Appendix 4 Thoughts on Spiritual Disciplines

I. Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis offers this tour de force for understanding and practicing spiritual disciplines, exploring the following ideas: 81

A. The Disciplined Life

B. The Celebrations of a Disciplined Life

C. Cultivating Our Communion: The Inward Disciplines (The Word, Prayer, Fasting, Study)

D. Cultivating Our Character: The Outward Disciplines (Simplicity, Solitude, Submission, Service)

E. Cultivating Our Community: The Corporate Disciplines (Confession, Worship, Guidance, Celebration)

F. Fleshing Out a Compelling Testimony: Disciplining our Disciplines

II. J.P. Moreland provides excellent insight about spiritual disciplines. 82

A. He describes spiritual disciplines and their effect on our sanctification using a comparison to golf: “When people play golf, they have a ‘golf character,’ that is, the sum of a person’s bad golf habits. A golf game may be weakened by bad habits in the wrists, shoulders, or somewhere else. People may have good habits in their legs but bad habits (golf flesh) in their shoulders. How does one develop a