Why We Need Personal and Congregational Disciplines

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🗓️ 1 January 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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The spiritual disciplines are habits to be engaged in personally and corporately. We need time alone with God, and we need time together with his people.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 2016 and welcome to the start of year number four for us here at the Asbestos
0:12.1	John Podcast.
0:13.9	We are back with guest Dr. Don Whitney who serves as the professor of biblical spirituality
0:18.8	and associate dean of the School of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
0:23.8	in Louisville.
0:25.5	He is also known for writing his classic book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian
0:29.4	Life which was originally published in 1991 and then revised and expanded in 2014.
0:36.0	Don is also the author of a new book from Crossway and that new book is titled Praying
0:40.0	the Bible.
0:41.5	The new year 2016 is here and with the new year brings renewed interest in all of the disciplines
0:47.8	of life including the spiritual disciplines.
0:51.3	January 1st is a good date to reset our spiritual practices and for the first week of the
0:57.2	new year I want to ask you Dr. Whitney you have five of the most common questions that
1:01.2	we get on the spiritual disciplines.
1:02.6	We started yesterday and we'll continue on today and then into next week and here's
1:06.6	the next question I have for you.
1:08.7	Help us with this.
1:10.2	How do you distinguish the personal disciplines from the congregational disciplines?
1:16.2	It is important for people to distinguish between personal spiritual disciplines and what
1:21.0	I call interpersonal spiritual disciplines, the private and the public, the individual and
1:27.1	the corporate are congregational.
1:29.6	There are those disciplines that we are to practice alone but there are those disciplines
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