Chat With Challies This Wednesday

Date January 7, 2008 Posted by Amy Hall

Tim Challies will join us on The A-Team Blog this Wednesday as part of a blog tour promoting his book, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment.  He'll be here to interact with all of you in the comments section, so be sure to stop by with your questions, challenges, and congratulations.

I've read most of the book now and highly recommend it.  In his book, Challies defines discernment as “the skill of understanding and applying God's Word with the purpose of separating truth from error and right from wrong” in the two areas of “the truth of God and the will of God.”

Here's a taste (I'll post another teaser quote tomorrow):

Spiritual discernment has never been an easy calling.  Throughout the Bible we see men and women of discernment being persecuted, mocked, and reviled both by those within the church and those outside of it.  Just as the judges, prophets, and apostles suffered for their discerning faith, so those who seek to emphasize discernment in our time can expect to suffer.  They can expect to face opposition and disagreement from those who claim Christ and those who do not.  They will face opposition from their own sinful hearts and from spiritual forces.  And still, like the apostle Paul, they must persevere, straining forward to what lies ahead and pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:13-14).  They must believe that to serve and honor God–to think Christianly, to treasure the Bible, to seek to know God as he is, and to humble themselves before his holiness–is a prize far greater than anything they may suffer.  (p. 51)

To hear more about the book, follow the tour:

Jan 7:    Evangelical Outpost
Jan 8:    Tall Skinny Kiwi
Jan 9:    A-Team Blog
Jan 10:  Adrian Warnock
Jan 11:  Gender Blog 

Jan 14:  Jollyblogger
Jan 15:  Between Two Worlds
Jan 16:  Team Pyro
Jan 17:  Internet Monk
Jan 18:  Church Matters

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