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2016 IVP Readers' Choice Award "Biblical spirituality . . . asserts
that God is not done with the business of revelation and creation
but instead continues to have something to say and something yet to
be accomplished in the very culture that isn't sure if God is done
speaking." So begins Keith Anderson as he invites us on a journey
to relearn how to listen. "My claim is simple: spirituality is
grounded in ordinary life experiences. We need to learn to listen
to rhythms of life, narratives and creation." Rather than settling
for a one-sided relationship with God in which we speak but never
hear back, we can learn to hear God as we go through our lives. The
key is paying attention to the moments that make up our days. As we
participate in the world around us, God speaks to us through
creation, through the stories we tell, through our pain and as we
follow God down unexpected pathways. Learning to listen doesn't
happen in ten easy steps. Instead it is a process of approaching
the world with wonder and curiosity as we seek to make sense of
what we hear. Hearing God speak takes time and practice, and
Anderson offers reflective exercises at the end of each chapter to
help us along the way. Listen-and step into a world alive with
God's presence.
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens . . . another.
(Proverbs 27:17) As we seek God together we come to know him more
deeply. That's the idea behind Spiritual Mentoring. Spiritual
mentoring is an ages-old practice that Keith Anderson and Randy
Reese introduce in a way that fits life as we know it today.
Spiritual mentoring is not only for pastors or saints. Mentors are
ordinary Christians who are willing to enter into a faith
relationship with another person who wants to grow. Likewise, those
who are mentored are not seminary candidates but simply followers
of Jesus who long for guidance in their spiritual journey. In this
book Anderson and Reese show you how to mentor and be mentored as
they introduce, chapter by chapter, the work of a different
classical spiritual writer, including Augustine Aelred of Rievaulx
John of the Cross Julian of Norwich Ignatius of Loyola Teresa of
Avila Madame Jeanne Guyon These writers offer timeless insights
from centuries past, while Anderson and Reese help you put their
teaching into practice today to grow closer to Jesus in the company
of another believer. If you want to learn how to help younger
Christians grow while stretching your own faith, or if you want to
tap into the experience of a Christian friend who is farther along
the road of faith, this is the book that will get you started.
Spiritual mentoring is a particular kind of friendship in which,
according to Keith R. Anderson, "two or more people walk together
in heightened awareness of the presence of yet Another"-the Holy
Spirit. "Spiritual mentoring is not a complicated process that
requires technical training and complex protocol," Anderson
continues. "It is essential, authentic, and maybe even natural
human speech that is focused, disciplined and nurtured by training
for one of the hardest natural things we do: listening reflectively
to another. It is sacred companionship as life is lived and story
told. Available to almost all, it requires deliberate recruitment,
preparation and practice." These pages unfold a vision for
mentoring that invites us to read our own lives as narrative and to
learn how to enter the narrative of another life. The book covers
the scope of the mentoring relationship through various seasons,
offering helpful and inspiring metaphors for mentoring. All are
invited to enter the mentoring story.
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