For Christians who want to live simple, disciplined livesFor Christians who want to live simple, disciplined livesHow can we live lives of integrity in the face of terrible social inequities: How can we effectively respond to today's complex issues? How can we develop a heart that is peaceful and silent enough to effect lasting, positive change? Through the discipline of simplicity we can achieve all this and more, says Richard Foster in Freedom of Simplicity.Freedom of Simplicity.
The Leader's Guide to this popular, warmly written book provides a variety of exercises to help readers reflect deeply on the power of simplicity and its relationship to prayer, solitude, and all the Christian disciplines.
This Leader's Guide offers:
- step-by-step instructions for leading each session
- activities to encourage openness and build community
- suggestions for prayer, meditation, and worship
- discussion questions and journaling exercises that can be photocopied
Richard J. Foster is a Christian theologian and author in the Quaker tradition. His writings speak to a broad Christian audience. He has been a professor at Friends University and pastor of Evangelical Friends churches. Foster resides in Denver, Colorado. He earned his undergraduate degree at George Fox University in Oregon and his Doctor of Pastoral Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Foster is best known for his 1978 book Celebration of Discipline, which examines the inward disciplines of prayer, fasting, meditation, and study in the Christian life, the outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, and the corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration. It has sold over one million copies. It was named by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the twentieth century.
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