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good golf character? Not simply by daily golf readings coupled with regular exposure to motivational golf music! No, golfers present their members to a golf instructor at a driving range as instruments of ‘golf righteousness.’ By presenting their members, they gradually get rid of bad golf habits and replace them with good ones, repeatedly engaging specific body parts in regular activities done over and over again, with the instructor in charge.”

B. Moreland organizes disciplines in two categories:

1. Disciplines of Abstinence: Solitude, Silence, Fasting, Frugality, Chastity, Secrecy, Sacrifice

2. Disciplines of Engagement: Study, Worship, Celebration, Service, Prayer, Fellowship, Confession, Submission

III. DallasWillard offered these helpful quotes about disciplines. 83

A. “A discipline is any activity within our power that we engage in to enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.” B. “They are disciplines designed to help us be active and effective in the spiritual realm of our own heart, now spiritually alive by grace, in relation to God and his Kingdom. They are designed to help us withdraw from total dependence on the merely human or natural (and in that precise sense to mortify the ‘flesh,’ kill it off, let it die) and to depend also on the ultimate reality, which is God and his Kingdom. Thus, for example, I fast from food to know that there is another food that sustains me. I memorize and meditate on scripture that the order of