My Mission

Becoming and making disciples of Jesus Christ with informed minds (orthodoxy), hearts on fire (orthopathy) and contemplative in actions (orthopraxis) through the process of spiritual formation in, with and for a community of faith, instituted in His own timing.

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Notes

“Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes the inner being of Christ himself…The result is that the ‘outer’ life of the individual increasingly becomes a natural expression of the inner reality of Jesus and his teachings. Doing what he said and did increasingly becomes part of who we are”

Dallas Willard
Renovation of the Heart (Colorado Springs: NavPress 2002, p.22,159)

“The true Christian life, true spirituality, does not mean just that we have been born again. It must begin there, but it means more than that. It does not mean only that we are going to be in heaven. It does mean that, but it means much more than that. The true Christian life, true spirituality in the present life, means more than being justified and knowing that I am going to heaven.

It is not just a desire to get rid of taboos in order to live an easier and looser life. Our desire must be for a deeper life. And when I begin to think of this, the Bible presents to me, the whole of the Ten Commandments and the whole of the Law of Love.

True spirituality, the true Christian life, is not just outward, but it is inward- it is not to covet against God and men.

But it is even more than this: it is positive; positive inward reality, and then positive in outward results. The inward thing is to be positive and not just negative; and then sweeping out of the inward positive reality, there is to be a positive manifestation externally. It is not just that we are dead to certain things, but we are to love God, we are to be alive to him, in this present moment of history. And we are to love men, to be alive to men as men, and to be in communication on a true personal level with men, in this present moment of history”

Francis A. Schaeffer
True Spirituality (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1983, p.16,17)

"making disciples of Jesus Christ with informed minds, hearts on fire and contemplative in actions"