River Valley Christian Church

Over the course of Luke’s Gospel, Jesus talks about and models what we call “spiritual disciplines.” These are practices that help us to grow and mature in our faith. They are the practices we participate in that help form us into who God wants us to be. Disciples and discipline share the same root in the Greek language and Jesus shows us that these concepts are tied together. If we want to follow Jesus, we have to be disciplined. Or, to say it the other way, disciplines make disciples. For the next six weeks, we’re going to learn the disciplines that help us to be disciples. Scripture: We cannot properly understand what Jesus teaches if we don’t understand who He really is. If Jesus really is the chosen, glorious Son of God – then we should want to hear Him. He has the right to demand that we listen to Him. Scripture is His vocabulary. If we want to recognize His voice, we need to familiarize ourselves with the way He speaks.