Host: Steve Macchia, Guest: James Bryan Smith
“Every need that my soul has, Jesus meets them – every single one of them.” – James Bryan Smith
James Bryan Smith is the author of the Good and Beautiful Series which includes The Good and Beautiful God, The Good and Beautiful You, The Good and Beautiful Life, and The Good and Beautiful Community. He earned his MDiv at Yale and his D. Min at Fuller and is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, where he also serves as the director of the Apprentice Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation. A founding member of Richard J. Foster's spiritual renewal ministry, Renovaré, Smith is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and has served in various capacities in local churches. James joins Steve for a conversation about how our view of God transforms our understanding/experience of spiritual disciplines. With a toxic view of God, James says “spiritual formation not only won’t help you, they might make you worse, you might turn them into legalism.” With a right view of God, “the disciplines take on a new understanding. Now it’s not, ‘I’m doing these things to get this angry God to be less angry.’ It’s,‘I’m doing these things because I want to be with this God.’”
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Examen | Silencio: Reflective Practices for Nurturing Your Soul, Episode 5
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Reflection | Silencio: Reflective Practices for Nurturing Your Soul, Episode 3
Listening Prayer | Silencio: Reflective Practices for Nurturing Your Soul, Episode 2
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