Am I defeated in any part of my life?
I think this question goes to the heart of my greatest fear as a Christian - that I'll become worn down, timid and unadventurous. I meet too many people like that! In Jesus we have victory not defeat - we'll be reminding ourselves of that very soon as we retell the Easter story!
We've now worked our way through what I believe are the important practices of the Holy Club:
- Praying regularly through the day
- Meeting together regularly - the group met at least five times a week though not all the members were present at every meeting.
- Accountability Questions - the group helped each other to examine their lives very regularly to see if they were maintaining their devotion to God.
- Studying the Bible together
- Studying the early church fathers - particularly the mystics - this is one of the clearest indications of the group's searching for an experience of Christ.
- Sharing Holy Communion
- Fasting - Wednesdays and Fridays until 3.00 in the afternoon
- Helping those less fortunate than themselves - prison visiting etc
- Living simply
- Keeping a journal
As I try to be holy in the 21st century, it's not simply a matter of copying what they did in the eighteenth. The important thing is to understand the values of what they did and work out how to reproduce those. We'll look at that some more in the remaining blogs.
Bible passage to meditate on: Romans 12:1-8
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