
- 156 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Are you living as God's burning bush, without being consumed? Or might you be headed toward burnout?We will rediscover the blessing of this mutual love relationship with God, overflowing to others, as God's sheer gift. Could it be that the first and greatest commandment is for our greatest joy, and not some mysterious burden to fulfill?One metaphor is the vine and the branches from John 15:1-11. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches; apart from the vine the branch can do nothing. God wants to be our supply, our source, in an intimate encounter of the finite with the infinite.God was the source for these heroes of faith: Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, John Calvin, and Teresa of Avila. Using a descriptive process called the Classic Three Ways, including the purgative (letting go), illuminative (seeing with the heart), and unitive (intimacy), dating back to around 500 CE, we now add a fourth way, the unitive/active (the dance). From that dance of mutual love, ministry overflows. We do it together; it is participatory, humankind following God's lead. It's not a formula. It's our living God!
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The First and Greatest Commandment
- Chapter 1: The Vine and the Branches
- Chapter 2: The Classic Three Ways Plus One
- Chapter 3: The Classic Three Ways Plus One as Found in the Dolbeau Sermons by Augustine of Hippo
- Chapter 4: The Classic Three Ways Plus One as Found in On the Song of Songs by Bernard of Clairvaux
- Chapter 5: The Classic Three Ways Plus One as Found in The Dialogue by Catherine of Siena
- Chapter 6: The Classic Three Ways Plus One as Found in The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola
- Chapter 7: The Classic Three Ways Plus One as Found in the Writings of John Calvin
- Chapter 8: The Classic Three Ways Plus One as Found in The Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila
- Chapter 9: God’s Gift: A Rhythm of Work and Rest
- Bibliography