Imitating Christ's own example, our lives should have an inside-out order, with devotion to Christ (solitude) flowing into devotion to community and devotion to the gospel (ministry).
The Holy Trinity, the imago dei, and our in-Christ life all provide the necessary foundations for a biblically based community, a community rooted in an understanding that every person's greatest need is to know God.
Ken Boa launches a new series on "Corporate Spirituality," focused on our growth in faith in the context of community. Our ability to love, serve others, and edify (and be edified in) the body of Christ must overflow from our own relationship with and security in Christ.
In part 2 of his "Devotional Spirituality" series during his Monday Night Study, Ken Boa shares the principle that we steadily become conformed to that which we most love and admire.
Ken Boa introduces a new teaching series, "Devotional Spirituality," which involves growing in intimacy with Christ, reveling in God's glorious attributes, and aspiring to lay hold of His desires for us. The series is based on Facet 6 of his best-selling spiritual formation text, Conformed to His Image.
Dr. Boa shares 12 Spiritual Warfare resources. Community with believers, deliverance from spiritual strongholds, delegated authority, and team ministry are a few of these resources.
Dr. Boa focuses on two verses (1 Peter 3:8-9) a little transitional section dealing with our relationship with the believing community as well as our relationship to those who oppress and oppose us. It is a lifestyle of love.
Peter transitions from addressing the richness of our salvation in Christ to practical application and the pulls that wage war against our souls. Dr. Boa discusses this inner-outward conflict that we all encounter and encourages us to live in such a way that our words and our works and our lives and our lips coincide.
Peter invites his readers to embrace God's narrative not the world's narrative; to embrace a biblical perspective on life and not what we often would construe for ourselves. This epistle gives a perspective of wisdom, faith, hope, and love and calls us to put our hope in the Living God and His unchanging character and promises.