Godliness Workbook

Introduction
The lady stood behind me in a worship service, and she tapped me on my shoulder, and she asked politely, “so I’ve read your book, now what do I do?” In so many ways, she expressed the concerns of anyone that’s searching to reconcile the balance sheet of one’s life, whose experienced the constant withdrawals from people and circumstances without leaving deposits. And we often through depleted accounts still look for ways to bargain with no get-up-and-go. Secondly, there are others that are softly whispering in response to the book were saying “so much information, can you help us navigate through the material?” YES! This workbook will help to answer or flesh out a strategy as well as providing a route to cross the bridge from academia

Matt. 4; Lk. 5: 16). Other occasions, the Bible chronicles occurrences of Christ spending the whole night in prayer to God, or sending away the multitudes to travel often alone to pray” (cf. Matt. 14: 23; Lk. 6: 12).

The late RC Sproul argued, “Growth in personal holiness is largely determined by our progress in self-discipline. Without this foundational discipline, there can be no advancement in grace. Before other disciplines can be administered, whether in the home, business, or church, there first must be self-discipline.”

What is a Spiritual Discipline? They are practices found in Scripture that promote spiritual growth among believers in the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are habits of devotion, habits of experiential Christianity that have been practiced by God’s people since biblical times.

Let’s observe other traditional thoughts about spiritual

They are not attitudes. Disciplines are practices. Spiritual disciplines are things you do. They are not character qualities. They are not graces. They are not the fruit of the Spirit. They are things you do.
• A third descriptor of the spiritual disciplines is that we are talking about things that are practices taught or modeled in the Bible.
• A fourth characteristic of spiritual disciplines is that those found in Scripture are sufficient for knowing and experiencing God and for growing in Christlikeness.
• A fifth description of spiritual disciplines is that they are derived from the gospel, not divorced from the gospel. Rightly practiced, the spiritual disciplines take us deeper into the glories of the gospel of Jesus Christ, not away from it as though we have moved on to some advanced level of Christianity.
• And the last characteristic of the spiritual disciplines is that they are means and not ends. The end, that is, the purpose of practicing the disciplines is godliness.

Unfortunately, there is “an inherent danger in spiritual disciplines. Why? Because, the human heart has an tendency to look to self-effort or practices or methodologies for growth. It is important to understand what is going on underneath the disciplines. What is the motivation for the