Invitation to a Journey
A Road Map For Spiritual Formation
by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
Summary
Our spiritual journey is a process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of the world. Every decision we make shapes who we are becoming—either more like Jesus, as people of love, forgiveness, compassion, and grace—or not.
The process according to Mulholland: “The journey of faith, the path to spiritual wholeness, lies in our increasingly faithful response to the One whose purpose shapes our path, whose grace redeems our detours, whose power liberates us from the crippling bondages of our previous journey, and whose transforming presence meets us at each turn in our road.”
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Invitation to a Journey - By M. Robert Mulholland
Favorite Quotes
“In the face of a radical loss of meaning, value and purpose engendered by a largely materialistic, hedonistic, consumer society, human hearts are hungering for deeper realities in which their fragmented lives can find some measure of wholeness and integrity, deeper experiences with God through which their troubled lives can find meaning, value, purpose and identity. The Christian community, which should have been a clear voice of liberation and wholeness in the wilderness of human bondage and brokenness, has too often been merely an echo of the culture, further confusing those on a wandering and haphazard quest for wholeness.”
“Spiritual formation is the great reversal: from acting to bring about the desired results in our lives to being acted upon by God and responding in ways that allow God to bring about God’s purposes.”
“There is no way that an individual can be conformed to the image of Christ for others without the nurture of the body of Christ; and there is no way that the community of faith can be the body of Christ if it does not nurture the individual members toward wholeness in Christ.”
“Thanksgiving is the deep inner posture of joyful release of our life and being to God in absolute trust, without demands, without conditions, without reservations.”
“Biblical spirituality calls us into a relationship with God that thrusts us out into the world as agents of healing, liberating grace.”
“As our lives are increasingly shaped toward wholeness in the image of Christ by the values, dynamics and structures of God’s order, we come into conflict with the dehumanizing and manipulative structures and dynamics of the fallen order within which we live. We begin to live holy lives in an unholy world.”
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