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Ancient-Future Faith and the Spiritual Formation Movement Bruce Baker, Pastor Washington County Bible Church Why Talk About This? Spiritual Maturity is Following the Rules Spiritual Maturity is Following the Rules Self-Identified

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Ancient-Future Faith

and the

Spiritual Formation Movement

Bruce Baker, Pastor Washington County Bible Church

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Why Talk About This?

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Spiritual Maturity is Following the Rules

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Spiritual Maturity is Following the Rules

Self-Identified Christians Endorsed

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Spiritual Maturity is Following the Rules

Self-Identified Christians Endorsed Strongly Agreed Born-Again Believers

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Spiritual Maturity is Following the Rules

Self-Identified Christians “Salvation Not by Works” Endorsed Strongly Agreed Born-Again Believers Concurred

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How Does Your Church Define Spiritual Maturity?

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How Does Your Church Define Spiritual Maturity?

Churchgoers Not Sure

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How Does Your Church Define Spiritual Maturity?

Born-Again Believers

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Alice in the Sheep’s Shop

“…whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make

  • ut exactly what it had on it,

that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold.”

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Spiritual Formation

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Spiritual Formation

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Spiritual Formation

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Spiritual Formation

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Spiritual Formation

The Nine Sacred Pathways

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Spiritual Formation

The Disciplined Retreat

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Spiritual Formation

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Evangelical Catholic

Return

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  • Dr. Francis

Beckwith

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Robert Webber

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Ancient Future Faith

Quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus “What (was believed) everywhere, always and by everyone”

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“One of the ten best books of the twentieth century.” Christianity Today

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Emergent Church

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Brian McLaren

…“seven ancient practices

  • f fasting, pilgrimage,

common daily prayers, a weekly day of rest, annual holy days and seasons, tithing and sacred meal, as they find fulfillment in the ‘threefold way’ of purgation, illumination and union with God.”

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Primitive (1st century) Ancient (classical) 100–600 Medieval 600–1500 Reformation 1500–1750 Modern 1750–1980 Postmodern 1980–present

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Ecumenical Creeds

Apostle’s Creed (middle 2nd century) Nicene Creed (325 AD) Symbol of Chalcedon (451 AD)

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Brian McLaren

“I don’t think we’ve got the gospel right

  • yet. What does it

mean to be ‘saved’? None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.”

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Union with God

Purgation Illumination Union

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The Way to Unio Mystica

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The Way to Unio Mystica

Lectio Divina

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The Way to Unio Mystica

Lectio Divina The Divine Office

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The Way to Unio Mystica

Lectio Divina The Divine Office Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises

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The Way to Unio Mystica

Lectio Divina The Divine Office Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises Liturgical Practices

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Mark Yaconelli

Contemplative Youth Ministry Reading Meditation Prayer Contemplation

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Mark Yaconelli

Take a word or phrase and “repeat it to yourself, allowing the rest of the text to fall away. As you prayerfully repeat it, different thoughts, feelings, and images may arise…. [This is the way we can] pray ourselves empty… [and] sink into God beneath all your thoughts and feelings.”

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Divine Office

Matins (during the night) Lauds (Dawn) Prime (First Hour — 6 AM) Terce (Third Hour — 9 AM) Sext (Sixth Hour — Noon) None (Ninth Hour — 3 PM) Vespers (lighting of the lamps) Compline (before retiring)

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Spiritual Exercises

Prayer exercises Thought experiments Examinations of consciousness Use of a Spiritual Director

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Liturgical Practices

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Prayer Labyrinth

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Prayer Labyrinth

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Prayer Labyrinth

Matthews United Methodist Church, Greenville, SC.

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Prayer Labyrinth

Westside Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ

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Chris Armstrong

“In short, the search for historic roots can and should lead not to conversion, but to a deepening ecumenical conversation and a recognition by evangelicals that the Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are fellow Christians with much to teach us.”

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If not Unio Mystica, then what?

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Being a

Christian

is being rightly related to Christ

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Being a

Spiritual

is being rightly related to The Spirit

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Questions?