The Three Ways

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Part 1 from the series, "Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship", as part of Practicing the Way. If apprenticeship to Jesus is a journey, is there a map? Or at least some landmarks to navigate by? Have any older, wiser followers of Jesus left behind insights on how to stay on the path? Avoid detours and pitfalls? Continue to progress, and not plateau, or worse, regress? It turns out, the answer is a resounding yes. Since the very beginning of the church, teachers of the way of Jesus have made an attempt to map the spiritual journey. And while all journeys are different, it turns out, all journeys are similar too. In the first teaching in our series, we explore an ancient paradigm called “The Three Ways,” which charts a course from purgation through illumination to union.

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0:00.0	Please turning your Bibles to Luke 9, as we kick off our spring practice on naming your stage of apprenticeship.
0:08.6	Are you ready for this?
0:10.8	Recommended reading.
0:12.0	If you're new to our community, we believe that reading is right up there with following Jesus.
0:15.6	It's not really, but we think that.
0:17.7	A few, all sorts of recommended reading at the top of the list is invitation to a journey by Robert Molland.
0:26.8	It's a favorite of ours.
0:28.0	It's kind of the best all-in-one place book I know of on spiritual formation.
0:31.8	And one quarter of the book is on naming your stage.
0:35.2	And then it's not on there for some reason, but the other one is Sacred Fire by Ronald Roolheiser.
0:39.8	It's one of my top five books of all time.
0:42.3	I read it every single summer on vacation.
0:44.6	And it's about discipleship in the middle years of your life, which is the longest.
0:49.4	And for many of us, the most exhausting season of life from about 30 to retirement.
0:55.6	So if you're anywhere in that middle window of life, this is an action,
0:59.5	this is a must read for you at some point, just to give you one more thing you don't have time for.
1:05.5	And more for later in the series.
1:08.8	On that note, Luke chapter 9,
1:14.7	Spirit of God, we just again welcome your presence.
1:20.4	And as Gerald said, we just believe that you speak.
1:23.2	That you have direct access to our mind and our imagination and our heart and even to our body.
1:30.5	And so come and speak, come and do your thing.
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