The Spiritual Formation Process
The Spiritual Formation Process: The Apostle Peter’s Outline
I first became impressed with 2 Peter 1:3-15 shortly after leaving my engineering career at Honeywell in October of 1992 to enter into full-time ministry. In the fall of 1994 I joined the staff of what was to become Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, and in the 1995 – 1996 time frame I developed a discipleship manual entitled The Seven Realities of Discipleship (The 7Rs Manual for short) somewhat based upon this passage. I say “somewhat” because I ranged far afield exegetically from the text in 2 Peter. However, an important factor that I endeavored to weave into The 7Rs Manual was representational thinking, to which I had been exposed in the summer of 1994. To regard the Bible as a representational system which defines reality for the saint was a life-transforming insight that I set about to incorporate into my own teaching from that point onward.
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