Spiritual Discipline

Our Virtue for the month is Discipline. We are studying spiritual disciplines with our family and with the kids and youth at Liberty. Last night we talked about scripture memorization with the kids and it was amazing how quickly they can memorize scripture, if only we parents would take more time and help them with that. I am constantly looking for and thinking about ways to do more family ministry and less kids or youth ministry, but constantly come back to the fact that the parents must want to do it and be doing it at home. What will it take for the messed up situation in our churches to change. Discipleship starting with the Parents!

I got this email this morning from Chip Kirk and he has some great thoughts about reading the bible. What if parents would read the bible more? that would help...

Soul Food: Reading the Bible

It’s no surprise that the Bible, as the saying goes, is the best selling, but least-read

book in the world. Even among committed Christians the Bible is a neglected book:

nibbled, but rarely eaten, acknowledged but unabsorbed.—R.N. Frost

Unless we discipline ourselves to get up earlier to read our Bibles, we probably won’t.

Unless we discipline ourselves to read our Bibles instead of watch TV, we probably

won’t. Unless we discipline ourselves to read our Bibles instead of surf the web, we

probably won’t. Will we, then, discipline ourselves to read our Bibles? Our answer to

that question reveals a lot about us.—Chip Kirk

Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night,

so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous

and successful.—Joshua 1:8

Soul Food is a side dish of www.chipkirk.com

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