The Spirit of the Disciplines - Reissue - by Dallas Willard (Paperback)

About the Book

A strong call to biblical obedience and discipline, this book presents a fresh look at the eternal--and comtemporary--relevance of the Scriptures. --Ted E. Engstrom, president emeritus, World Vision

Book Synopsis

How to Live as Jesus Lived

Dallas Willard, one of today's most brilliant Christian thinkers and author of The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today's 1999 Book of the Year), presents a way of living that enables ordinary men and women to enjoy the fruit of the Christian life. He reveals how the key to self-transformation resides in the practice of the spiritual disciplines, and how their practice affirms human life to the fullest. The Spirit of the Disciplines is for everyone who strives to be a disciple of Jesus in thought and action as well as intention.

Review Quotes

"Essential guidance for spiritual growth."-- Richard J. Foster, author of "Streams Of Living Water""A fresh examination of the nature of life and discipline . . . exciting and instructive." -- "The Disciple""Few books have challenged me like this one. I would urge every serious minded Christian to read it . . . at your own risk" -- Bill Hybels, author of "Honest to God?""A profound call to discipleship based on spiritual disciplines [that] awakens us to a forgotten truth, that the transformation to Christlikeness is realized through taking on the easy yoke' of the disciplines" -- Sue Monk Kidd, author of "God's Joyful Surprise, When the Heart Waits," and "The Dance of the Dissident Daughter"