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The spiritual disciplines assignment beginning in week one was transformative. I started the course very excited about this assignment, for I have previously struggled with Scripture reading and prayer, focusing most of my attention on my courses. While I recognize that learning is also a discipline to be embraced, I acknowledge now that it has led to the neglect of other, more crucial disciplines.
In the first chapter of his book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Donald S. Whitney argues that "the Spiritual Disciplines are those practices found in Scripture that promote spiritual growth among believers in the [G]ospel of Jesus Christ. They are the habits of devotion and experiential Christianity that have been practiced by the people of God since biblical times." He continues to explain that there are both personal, the kind on which the book focuses, and interpersonal Spiritual Disciplines.
As defined in the book Invitation to Evangelism: Sharing the Gospel with Compassion and Conviction by Timothy K. Beougher, Evangelism is "the compassionate sharing of the [G]ood [N]ews of Jesus Christ with lost people, in the power of the Holy Spirit, for the purpose of bringing them to Christ as Savior and Lord, that they in turn might share [H]im with others." The spirit of evangelism is compassion, the method is sharing, the content is Good News, the recipients are lost people, the power is the Holy Spirit, the purpose is to bring them to Christ as Savior and Lord, and the perpetuation is that they might win others to Christ.