What Are Spiritual Disciplines?

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🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

What makes a discipline spiritual, and what makes a spiritual practice a discipline? Don Whitney addresses six characteristics of Christian spiritual disciplines.

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0:00.0	This week on the podcast, we're joined by Dr. Don Whitney, the Professor of Biblical
0:09.6	Spirituality and Associate Dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological
0:15.8	Seminary in Louisville.
0:18.4	Don is well known for writing his classic book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian
0:22.6	Life, which was originally published in 1991 and then revised and expanded in 2014 to
0:29.0	its present form.
0:31.4	And Don is also the author of a new book from Crossway and that book is titled, Praying
0:35.6	the Bible.
0:36.6	And we'll talk more about that book a little later on, Dr. Whitney, thank you for your
0:39.6	time.
0:40.6	It is a great privilege and honor to be on the podcast, Tony.
0:43.3	Thank you for having me.
0:44.3	Oh, certainly.
0:45.3	We're happy to have you here and 2016 is here and with a new year brings renewed interest
0:51.3	in disciplines and particularly the Spiritual Disciplines.
0:55.8	In January 1st is a good date to sort of reset our spiritual practices.
1:00.0	I want to ask you five of the most common questions that we get on spiritual disciplines
1:04.5	and I know that these are questions that you've heard as well.
1:07.7	And so we're going to start our time together broadly with this first question.
1:12.4	In general, what are the spiritual disciplines?
1:15.9	How do you define them?
1:17.9	The spiritual disciplines of those practices found in scripture that promote spiritual
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