Turn the power on.... with Spiritual Discipline
“45 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. “ (Luke 6:45, NIV)
I remember one of the first ever Southern Baptist Convention’s I ever went to, Bobby Welch was newly elected and Baptists where on fire trying to get a “million saved and baptized”. The concept was astounding and exciting. Churches all over where trying to get people saved and baptized. President Welch did a tremendous job of leading and rallying Southern Baptists.
There was just one downfall, and it wasn’t because we didn’t reach the million. No, the problem was we converted and baptized but they disappeared. We left out the part of discipleship. We left out the part of Spiritual Formation.
Spiritual formation in the life of the believer is huge. It’s essential. In Luke 6:45 we are told that we should bring out good stored in our heart, but not just good it speaks to the “overflow”. Overflow is the assumption that you and I are spending time on our own personal spiritual development. We are praying, preaching, teaching, and even witnessing out of the overflow of what God is doing in our own personal spiritual formation.
It’s virtually impossible to have an overflow, when there is little to nothing going in. I would venture to say that far too often we treat our spiritual health the same way we treat our physical. That is to ignore it, while we are taking care of others first. Therefore, you and I must work on our own spiritual formation before we can help others.
Power up with Spiritual discipline
Chris
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