Discover the transformative power of questions as tools for personal growth and spiritual exploration. Dive into the journey of faith that reshaped understanding and worldview. Explore the benefits of silence and reflection in daily life, fostering a deeper connection with faith. Unpack the impact of personal beliefs on relationships and actions. Finally, illuminate your path with the symbolism of light in scriptures, encouraging a receptive approach to divine illumination.
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Four Questions of Initiation
The four questions of initiation are "Who is God?", "Who am I?", "What is the story?", and "What is my frontier?".
These questions uniquely shape worldview and apprenticeship in God’s Kingdom.
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Power of Questions in Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship in God's kingdom prioritizes questions over answers as paths to transformation.
Core questions universally explore God's nature, self-identity, reality's story, and our personal frontier.
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Worldview Shapes Our Meaning
Worldview is an often subconscious fundamental orientation expressed in a story shaping how we make meaning.
Reflecting and rethinking worldview is essential for aligning with God and His kingdom.
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James Sire's "Habits of the Mind" delves into the Christian intellectual life, exploring how faith and reason intersect. It encourages critical thinking within a Christian framework, urging readers to examine their beliefs and engage with the world intellectually. The book emphasizes the importance of developing good intellectual habits and using them to understand and engage with the world around them. It challenges readers to integrate their faith into their daily lives and to use their minds to serve God. Sire's work is a call to intellectual honesty and spiritual growth.
The hero's journey
Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
Joseph Campbell
This book is a biography of Joseph Campbell, presented through a series of conversations with various individuals he inspired, including poets, anthropologists, filmmakers, and other notable figures. It reflects on Campbell's lifelong exploration of mythic traditions, which he termed 'the one great story of mankind'. The book covers topics such as the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist, the need for ritual, and the ordeals of love and romance. It provides a personal and insightful look into Campbell's life and his seminal work on the hero's journey[4][5][6].
The Universe Next Door
A Basic Worldview Catalog
James W. Sire
For more than forty years, *The Universe Next Door* has set the standard for introducing worldviews. James Sire uses his widely influential model of eight basic worldview questions to examine worldviews such as theism, deism, naturalism, Marxism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern monism, New Age philosophy, postmodernism, and Islam. The book critiques each worldview within its own frame of reference and in comparison to others, providing an overview of intellectual history and insight into Western thought and culture. The sixth edition, updated by Jim Hoover, includes new explanatory sidebars, charts, and a chapter on challenges to a Christian worldview in the twenty-first century.
Renovation of the Heart
Putting on the Character of Christ
Dallas Willard
In *Renovation of the Heart*, Dallas Willard argues that spiritual transformation occurs when all essential dimensions of the human being—spirit, mind, body, social context, and soul—are transformed to Christlikeness under the direction of a regenerate will and the constant overtures of God's grace. The book emphasizes that this transformation is not achieved through mere human effort but through apprenticeship to Jesus Christ. Willard discusses the importance of understanding human nature, its components, and how they are renewed, and he provides a systematic process for personal transformation rooted in biblical and theological principles[1][3][5].
“Questions are the tools of transformation. They disturb our certainty and awaken our longing.”
— James K. A. Smith
The power of questions is central to the path of an apprentice—especially the questions we don’t realize we are asking and the unconscious answers that shape our every moment. What questions have you recovered along the way of your initiation? And how are you allowing these questions to shape your apprenticeship as kings and queens in God’s Kingdom?
In this episode, we seek to recover core questions of the human experience and explore how reflecting on questions helps interrupt disintegrating patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving—and connects us in fresh ways to Jesus and His Kingdom.
Join us as we continue to risk together in this deeper exploration of the big ideas explored in Becoming a King. To access the free and recently released second edition of the companion retreat, go to Becomingakingretreat.com.
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