Pastor Sarah is sharing a super practical message about how to craft a Rule of Life to help organize and orient our lives around Abiding in Christ.
Rule of Life for Abiding in Christ
Speakers
Sarah Blount
Lead Pastor
Notes
Careful Lest Ye Drift
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
The writer had the drifting of a boat in mind, and such drifting happens naturally without an anchor to something solid. If we are not securely set in the truth of the supremacy of Jesus, we will drift into danger with the currents of the world, the flesh, and the devil.
David Guzik
A Rule of Life is an intentional, conscious plan to keep God at the center of everything we do. It provides guidelines to help us continually remember God as the source of our lives. It includes our unique combination of spiritual practices that provide structure and direction for us to intentionally pay attention and remember God in everything we do.
Pete Scazzero
A Rule of Life is a schedule and a set of practices to set up abiding as the central pursuit of your life. It’s a way to organize all of your life around the practices and presence of God.
John Mark Comer
A framework that allows life to flourish
Justin Whitmel Earley
A Curriculum for Christlikeness
Dallas Willard
The early Christian calendar enabled the church to see time as a medium that belongs to God and unfolds according to his purposes.
Gerald Sittser
The entire life of the early church community was oriented and organized around Jesus.
Rule = Trellis
A trellis is a tool that enables a grapevine to get off the ground and grow upward, becoming more fruitful and productive.
John 15:5
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”
Busy people are lazy people.
C.S. Lewis
Most of us have more than enough time to work with, even in busy seasons of life. We just have to reallocate our time to ‘seek first the kingdom of God,’ not the kingdom of entertainment.
John Mark Comer
Spiritual Disciplines: Activities modeled by Jesus in scripture that, when undertaken, position you to be empowered by the Holy Spirit so you can do what Jesus would do if he were you; Christlikeness that you can’t walk in by willpower alone.
Disciplines:
- Prayer
- Silence
- Solitude
- Scripture
- Fasting
- Simplicity
- Sabbath
- Worship
- Celebration
- Fellowship
- Service
- Sacrifice