Conformed to His Image, Revised Edition: Biblical, Practical Approaches to Spiritual Formation
Overview
A Comprehensive, Balanced, and Applicable Guide to Spiritual Growth.
What does a real relationship with God look like? What does the biblical vision of true spiritual life look like? How do we grow in spiritual maturity? How we answer these questions influence the health, potency, and witness of Christians in an increasingly complex and hostile world.
Conformed to His Image answers these questions with clarity and insight, offering a comprehensive, balanced, and applicable guide to spiritual growth. Designed for use in college and seminary courses, this revised edition of the widely used textbook helps readers build their lives on a fully biblical perspective. It offers corrective to our tendency to pick and compartmentalize spiritual growth by exploring twelve facets of authentic Christian spirituality including:
- Relational Spirituality: Loving God Completely, Ourselves Correctly, and Other Compassionately
- Paradigm Spirituality: Cultivating an Eternal versus a Temporal Perspective
- Disciplined Spirituality: Engaging in the Historical Disciplines
- Exchanged Life Spirituality: Grasping Our True Identity in Christ
- Motivated Spirituality: A Set of Biblical Incentives
- Devotional Spirituality: Falling in Love with God
- Holistic Spirituality: Every Component of Life under the Lordship of Christ
- Process Spirituality: Process versus Product, Being versus Doing
- Spirit-Filled Spirituality: Walking in the Power of the Spirit
- Warfare Spirituality: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
- Nurturing Spirituality: A Lifestyle of Evangelism and Discipleship
- Corporate Spirituality: Encouragement, Accountability, and Worship
With chapter overviews and objectives, questions for personal application, a glossary, and a list of key terms, Conformed to His Image provides a defining text for the student, pastor, and church leader of today and tomorrow. This revised edition includes new recommended resources throughout, more recent examples of subjects discussed, and updated wording to better reflect our postmodern context.
- Explores the biblical vision of true spiritual life
- Answers common questions about spirituality
- Includes new recommended resources throughout, more recent examples of subjects discussed, and updated wording to better reflect our postmodern context
Top Highlights
“As the story of the wedding at Cana (John 2:1–11) illustrates, the world pours out its best wine first and switches to the cheap wine after people’s discernment has been dulled. But our Lord’s miracle of turning the water into wine teaches us that for those who follow him, the best is reserved for last.” (Page 56)
“Nevertheless there are authentic, biblically orthodox, and time-tested approaches to the spiritual life that still mark many communities of believers, and this is what this book means when it uses the term spirituality.” (Page 2)
“Our greatest mental, physical, and social achievements are as straw compared with one glimpse of the living God (Philippians 3:7–10). Our Lord invites us to the highest calling of all—intimacy with him—and day after day, we decline the offer, preferring instead to fill our stomachs with the pods of short-lived pleasures and prospects.” (Page 16)
“Loving God completely is the key to loving self correctly (seeing ourselves as God sees us), and this in turn is the key to loving others compassionately. As we grow in our understanding of God’s unconditional love and acceptance of us in Christ, we are increasingly liberated from using people to meet our needs.” (Page 30)
“It has been observed that there is no sin so great that God will not forgive, but there is no sin so small that it does not need to be forgiven.” (Page 36)
- Title: Conformed to His Image: Biblical, Practical Approaches to Spiritual Formation
- Author: Kenneth Boa
- Edition: Revised Edition
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 586
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Religion › Christian Education--Adult; Religion › Christian Ministry--Discipleship; Religion › Spirituality
- ISBNs: 9780310514787, 9780310109839, 9780310109822, 0310514789, 0310109833, 0310109825
- Resource ID: LLS:CONFRMIMAGEREBOA
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:57:20Z
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Anita Van Hal
9/21/2022
Deepak Kumar Singh
5/31/2022
Conformed to His Image is a life-changing book which presents a synthetic and comprehensive approach to the spiritual life that will expose you to twelve beneficial facets. These include: • Relational Spirituality: Loving God Completely, Ourselves Correctly, and Others Compassionately • Paradigm Spirituality: Cultivating an Eternal versus a Temporal Perspective • Disciplined Spirituality: Engaging in the Historical Disciplines • Exchanged Life Spirituality: Grasping Our True Identity in Christ • Motivated Spirituality: A Set of Biblical Incentives • Devotional Spirituality: Growing in Relationship with God • Holistic Spirituality: Every Component of Life under the Lordship of Christ • Process Spirituality: Process versus Product, Being versus Doing • Spirit-Filled Spirituality: Walking in the Power of the Spirit • Warfare Spirituality: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil • Nurturing Spirituality: A Lifestyle of Evangelism and Discipleship • Corporate Spirituality: Encouragement, Accountability, and Worship Each of these facets has value as part of a greater whole, which will stretch your thinking and encourage you to “press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14). As author prays, this book will help you to • Develop a greater appreciation for the unique way God has made you. • Become aware of a wider array of options for your spiritual journey. • Get out of a spiritual rut. • Desire to experience other facets of the faith. • Appreciate the manifold legacy that has been bequeathed to us by those who have gone before. • Be encouraged to explore practices and aspects of the Christian faith that you might have otherwise ignored. • Have a greater passion for Christ and a greater desire to participate in his loving purposes for your life. The book also has a accompanying video study (ISBN: 9780310109860) separately available at Faithlife.
