Living In The Spirit Unit Two Flashcards
The apostle Paul was so ………. with this that in Romans 7:19 he said, “the …… that I want to do I ….., and the ……..that I …….I find myself doing …………:”
Frustrated good can't evil hate constantly
The ingrained ……. – ……..of sin are so …… that, with the help of the ….. …, they are like powerful magnets pulling us toward ………..
Habit – patterns
ingrained
evil one
wickedness
According to Isaiah 24:21–23, the …….. ……..Would be the period of the ………… ………….during which time the ………….would reign in person over all the world from Jerusalem.
Millennial Sabbath
messianic Kingdom
Messiah
In Leviticus 23:4 reread, “these are the…….. of the Lord, even ….. …………, which you shall proclaim in their seasons.”
Feasts
holy convocations
The seven …… of ……..fall into three clusters, which includes: ……… ………
and …………..
Feasts Israel Passover Pentacost tabernacles
The deeply religious and spiritual significance of the feast of Passover served as a reminder that there is no ……….for … apart from the ……..of …..
Atonement for sin
shedding of blood
The ………..of time is when the ….., the ………, or the ……sets a high priority on having the …….. or even the clock reflect …../………values.
Sacrilizing tribe community nation calendar moral/religious
The ….. of ……… ….. was a reminder of God’s call on the peoples …… to be a people … ……. onto ………
Feast of unleavened bread
lives
set apart unto
holiness
The …… of …… fruits was a …. to consider their …….., to make certain they were putting God…… in their lives.
Feast of first fruits
call
priorities
first
The …….of …….. was a reminder that … is the ……. of all ………
Feast harvest God source blessings
The….. assembly …… … of ………was a reminder of the need for constant, ongoing ………..
The solemn , feast day, trumpets
repentance
The …of ………. was also a …….assembly day, a … of …. and introspection.
Day of atonement
solemn
day
rest
………… was a …… celebration of God’s faithfulness, even when the children of Israel were ………..
Tabernacles
joyous
unfaithful
Dr. Paul Jones said, “if we ever …….our past, and we have no ……. worthy of a …….,.”
Forget
present
future
Another biblical way of marking time as …. is by sacrilizing the ………marked by lunar activity.
holy
months
Another way of marking time as holy for the Christian is the sacralizing of the …., in regard to …. …..
Week
holy week
The days are also celebrated in connection with the ……. ….. of Genesis, chapter 1.
Creation story
Genesis
In the Bible, we see this sacralizing of the day (Daniels prayers morning/noon and night ….. …..each day)
Three times
In Jesus’day the rabbis understood”……..” to mean that if you would develop the spiritual insight necessary, then you could move ……and …… into each of these levels; and you would eventually be able to stand in the …… of …. with ….and .. before they …. .
Paradise deeper and deeper garden of Eden Adam and Eve fell
On more than one occasion Jesus speaks in ……., with the disciples on a deeper level of …………. and …………. than he did when he was with the masses.
Private
understanding and comprehension
From this vantage point the Christian monks picked up on the biblical …….. ……. of praying every three hours or so.
Priestly offices
By this sacralizing of time, we humans develop …….. of …….that get ………into our very being.
Patterns of habit
ingrained
Richard Foster gives us 12 ……….. which he neatly categorizes into three areas: a) the inward ………..
Meditation, prayer, fasting, and study)
b) the ……. ……….. (Simplicity, solitude, submission, and service)
c) the ……… Disciplines: confession, worship, guidance, and celebration).
Disciplines
disciplines
outward disciplines
corporate
Our primary concern ought to be the …… of believing that our’s and .. … …..level – four interpretation, is the only correct interpretation.
Danger
no one else’s
Our habits, when they become second nature to us, then become our “……..”
Habitus
Foster writes, “to draw near to …….is better than to …….the ……….of …..[ or, humanly initiated ……… Talk-]
Listen
offer the sacrifice of fools
religious
In his classic work, Life together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes the case that both “……” and “………” are incomplete without the other.
Community
solitude
For the Christian, the ……. law becomes the ……… ……….. .
Perfect
spiritual disciplines
The rabbis of Jesus’ Time taught on four different levels: the…… or literal level, the …… or allegorical level, the …… or homiletical level, and the …or the deepest spiritual level.
Peshot
Remez
Desash
Sod
The rabbis taught that, “if a student penetrated fully into these for meetings, he would be here and now in ………”
Paradise
Often Jesus taught using …….. in order to help people better understand the things of God, yet his intent was also draw the listener into a …..of ……… .
Parables
state of bewilderment
Ancient religions, and even modern agrarian communities, mark time by the ……. .
Seasons
Level four, … , for the Christian refers to someone who has moved through the other three levels and can all move into ……… on an entirely different level.
Sod
Scripture
The fourth level as for the …… – ……. (not superior person): one who is able to read scripture (………..)in a new way; one who is not his concern to know by whom or why a passage was written, but caring only to ask of God, through the passage, what is the ……. for my ….today?
Spirit – minded
devotionally
message for my soul
We are encouraged to ….. God’s word, …… It, ……. It, ……it; but we were never encouraged to …….. it
Study learn debate doubt ignore (doubt is incorrect in my view)
The Lectio Divina is a phrase that literally means: “The …… …. .
Divine word
The Lectio or logia has meant, and ………. .. ….. “disciplined” …… …….. of devotional Scripture – reading that is done
……………– with the focus being on what … is wanting to … to the individual, for their needs, for that ………. day.
Logia Continues to mean Daily portion Introspectively God Say Particular
There was a deeply ……… and ……… significance to each of the ancient feast of Israel.
Religious
spiritual
In the early church …………. prayer was practiced and later became the model used by many of the ……….
Contemplative
monastics
The process of the …….. model of prayer follows the biblical pattern found in the Emmaus-road journey where the … weary travelers were overtaken by the ….. …… .
Meditating
Two
risen Christ
Jesus took the Emmaus travelers on a journey of ……… ………. which began with the reading [Lectio ; the foundational body of God’s revelation to us] the word (with … ….), meditating upon the word (as it was being heard)[with our …. – – mind,will and emotions].
Spiritual revelation
lectio
new eyes
soul
No one can really specifically tell you how to produce God for that private spirit searching message of dessert; yet, throughout the history of the church, God’s most common methods of speaking to us humans has been through the …. ………. .
Holy Scriptures
And then, in the …….of their hearts, the Emmaus travelers …………[in their spirits] upon these new ………… and they remarked, did or not did not our …….burn within us.
Silence
contemplated
revelations
Hearts
This Emmaus – Road journey process is one that incorporates four Latin words, the simple adding of the letter “n” to the end of each of them produces the more familiar Anglicized form that are common today. They are: Lectio, ……… , ……….:. and Contemplatio.
Meditatio
Oratio
The covenant group leader was to press the participants into an honest evaluation or “…….” of their serious attempt at Christian spirituality during the previous week.
Examin
When a covenant group meets, it is not necessary to give one another “………or “…….”
Support
therapy
Robert Mulholland of Asbury theological seminary, defines spiritual formulation as a “…….whereby we are ……….into the …… of …….. – – for the ….. of ……..”
Process
conformed
image of Christ
sake of others
CS Lewis said that, every Christian is to become a …… ……. . The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply that, and …….. …. .
Little Christ
nothing else
A “….” is a …of ……., by which an individual, or group, chooses to live.
Rule
code of conduct
A “….” means to reflect what really is necessary to help that person become like the …….. that …… is trying to create within that ……. .
Rule
Christian
Christ
person
A …. may be changed, with the …….of the group and the leader, under either of two circumstances: one, when a …. is truly unattainable that is, unrealistic in its scope;and two, when a …. has been achieved and is now a part of the ……. of the individual that is, when the person is no longer being ……… to accomplish that particular goal.
Rule consent rule habitus Stretched
The historic Christian church, and all that it ……… , influenced those who developed “…….. ……….
.”
Practiced
alcoholics anonymous
The unique offering of a covenant group is that as a group the saints come together Acknowledging that the true …… of the covenant group is the ….. ….. .
Saints
leader
Holy Spirit
Remember what is at stake is not your feelings rather it’s the development of your …… .
Spirit
We speak, and yet we do not ……; and our speaking fourth is based upon our sensing of “……….” as the Holy Spirit leads us, and as ………. by the group.
Advise
promptings
Validated
A covenant group is not a ……-action group.
Social
Covenant group is not a …….committee.
Planning
Leadership in a …….. ….. Shall be based on a covenant group members faithfulness to the group to their rule and to the group covenant
Covenant group
Anyone who seriously wants to ….. in their ….. can become a ……… of a covenant group; but not …. ……can become a covenant group …… .
Grow faith member just anyone leader
If you want to have a Bible study to attract the ………. church person, or the …….or “………” person, the title of your study needs to be …….., and it needs to include the word “leadership.”
Uncommitted unsaved unchurched creative leadership
Negativity is the ……. of a decline in …….. …….. both personal and corporate!
Product
spiritual emphasis
Establish a formal policy that those who won’t ….. won’t …. .
Grow
lead
Only after there has been an ………..and …………. attempt to recruit active …….. ……. participants from among the leadership, should you recruit active Bible study/……… …… participants from within the congregation!
Exhaustive
intentional
covenant group/bible study
covenant group
The basic question that Rev. John Wesley asked in a covenant group setting was: “how is it been this past week with your ….?”
Soul
We do not need ……… … in which to believe; we just need .. ……. what we say we …….
.
Something new
to believe
believe
This policy almost automatically develops a system whereby ……..become ………and …….. become ……. .
Followers
servants
servants
leaders
When our Lord knelt and took a ….. and a …… and washed the feet of … ………, Jesus told them that ….. … …. …..must learn first learn to serve.
Towel
basin
the disciples
those who would lead
Since confirmation and/or church membership can, and should, be viewed as the “………. of the …..,” then the …… ……….. is toward servant hood.
Ordination of the laity
Laitys ordination
Develop within the local church a……. …… that will agree to …. for the spiritual growth of its …….. …….. .
Prayer group
pray
church leaders
