Closely related to the post that I put up last night, here is a quote from an article by John Ortberg in the latest issue of Leadership Journal:
I once was part of a survey on spiritual formation. Thousands of people were asked when they grew most spiritually, and what contributed to their growth. The response was humbling—at least for someone who works at a church.
The number one contributor to spiritual growth was not transformational teaching. It was not being in a small group. It was not reading deep books. It was not energetic worship experiences. It was not finding meaningful ways to serve.
It was suffering.
Is that true for you too? I know that the author of Hebrews says that Jesus learned obedience through his suffering; however, do you think there are other ways to grow spiritually or is suffering the main conduit of growth?
Funny... I was going to teach about this very thing at CityWide today.
Might I direct you to another blog that has recently emerged? A friend from the not to distant past: http://pembertonchristian.blogspot.com/
Paul also recently blogged on the Christian Yogi.
Posted by: AndyLambkin | 02/27/2011 at 02:58 PM
Cool, I'll definitely check that out.
Posted by: Jonathan Friesen | 03/03/2011 at 09:16 PM