Spiritual Formation: An Invitation to Drawing Near The Renewal of the Mind in Spiritual Formation
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May 30, 2024 Delving into spiritual formation, the conversation navigates the complex interplay between desire and pornography. Kyle explores how desire can be a good servant but a bad master, urging the renewal of the mind towards God. He highlights the impact of pornography as a form of social self-medication, stripping away human dignity. The discussion also addresses the need for deeper engagement with anger and the heart's habits that fuel such behavior. Ultimately, the focus is on cultivating affections over passive desires to align oneself with divine purpose.
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Desire Needs Rightful Ordering
- Desire is not inherently bad and can drive life forward when rightly ordered.
- Kyle Strobel explains Willard: the will must subordinate desire to what is truly good so desires align with God.
Mind Equals Heart In Formation
- Willard equates the biblical 'heart' with the mind as the place we contact God.
- Kyle Strobel emphasizes that renewing the mind means reorienting our rationality toward God's reality.
Desire Drives Action, Not Just Thought
- Desires energize action and survival, so merely thinking isn't enough.
- Willard, via Kyle Strobel, shows passions impel life but must be ordered by intellect and will.
