Longing for God: Seven Paths of Christian Devotion
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Think of the moment you last experienced God.
Do you know him that closely in this moment?
Truly experiencing the love of God gives us a taste of his goodness and his love for us, but often those moments are fleeting. We get distracted by life. Our awareness and understanding fade while our longing to experience him that way again increases.
In these pages you can begin to fill that longing by developing your capacity to receive and respond to God’s love. Spiritual formation is the process through which one’s inner self is opened to the work of the Holy Spirit, who forms us into the image of the Son. Here Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe, both experienced leaders in spiritual formation, introduce you to people from the past who have known God deeply. Each person helps you to grasp one of the seven primary paths to intimacy with God that have been developed throughout Christian history. Chapters are divided into sections, each segment surrounding a key figure and concluding with a reflection and prayer.
This rich resource can guide you into the same deep intimacy with God, opening you to the Spirit’s work of transformation. A Renovaré Resource.
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- Helps you to grasp one of the seven primary paths to intimacy with God.
- Guides you into the same deep intimacy with God.
- Takes you to the ‘never-ending presence of God’ experience.
- Path One: The Right Ordering of Our Love for God
- Path Two: The Spiritual Life as Journey
- Path Three: The Recovery of Knowledge of God Lost in the Fall
- Path Four: Intimacy with Jesus Christ
- Path Five: The Right Ordering of Our Experiences of God
- Path Six: Action and Contemplation
- Path Seven: Divine Ascent
Living amid the rush of today’s world--especially as one who leads in today’s church--I need the wisdom of past saints. Their will to nakedly live in the light of God’s Word distinguishes them from our tendencies to clothe ourselves in mere success, recognition or knowledge. Foster and Beebe afford us a resource to ‘strip down’--to till our hearts, review our priorities and invite the Holy Spirit to plow our souls. His rain on such prepared soil is the key to any lasting fruitfulness in life or leadership.
--Jack W. Hayford, chancellor, The King’s Seminary, Los Angeles
Deep wells of living water dug by our ancestors have been filled with religious rubble and trash by American consumer spirituality. Like Isaac, digging again the wells of his father that the Philistines stopped up, Richard Foster and Gayle Beebe have cleaned out these deep sources of Christian nurture and formation for us. It turns out that there are wells all over the place. Use this book for your bucket.
--Eugene H. Peterson, translator of The Message
This is a feast for the mind and the soul. This is the best and richest of Christian thinking and soul-making made accessible to everybody. It would be very hard to read this without having your heart grow.
--John Ortberg, author and pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church