Spirit of the Disciplines
Understanding How God Changes Lives

I am genuinely floored and excited about the implications of this book. I need to make sure that it produces in me action and not just theological excitement. “A baseball player who expects to excel in the game without adequate exercise of his body is no more ridiculous than the Christian who hopes......more

Dallas Willard is a Southern Baptist-ordained theologian who has a refreshing way of overturning my assumptions. In The Spirit of the Disciplines, he hammers on the tendencies of people like me to slough off disciplines such as solitude, silence, fasting, and frugality in favor of more saccharine in......more

The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives, by Dallas Willard. 5 stars. Dallas Willard has helped me see a more human side of Jesus. He is King, Lord, Savior, and more - all the spiritual and spiritual-sounding terms we ascribe to him - but he is also the smartest, wisest and......more

leveled by this What impacted me the most about this book (plus Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel) was its historical perspective on how the protestant church has drifted from the New Testament vision of discipleship to Jesus. I could look at scriptures with eyes to appreciate how the way of Jesus is......more

Only one chapter is given to the listing and explaining of the various disciplines. The bulk of the book is a persuasive argument for the practice of the disciplines with appropriate disclaimers and caveats (though those take very little space). Basically the author argues that the transformation of......more