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    "Habits of Grace": "Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines Study Guide"
    "Habits of Grace": "Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines Study Guide"
    "Habits of Grace": "Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines Study Guide"
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    "Habits of Grace": "Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines Study Guide"

    By David Mathis

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    Put Yourself in the Path of God's Grace
    This study guide is designed to help you connect more deeply with the three crucial power sources for the Christian life: hearing God's voice (in the Bible), having his ear (in prayer), and belonging to his body (in the fellowship of the church).
    Created as a supplement to the book Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines by David Mathis, and intended for individual and small-group study alike, this 31-day resource includes relevant Scripture readings, discussion questions tied to specific sections of the book, and prompts for applying each lesson to your everyday life. Rehearsing and reiterating key practices outlined in Habits of Grace, this study guide will equip you to stay focused on the gospel as you cultivate your own specific life-transforming habits aimed at keeping you connected to the grace of God in Jesus.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateMar 16, 2016
    ISBN9781433553561
    "Habits of Grace": "Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines Study Guide"
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    David Mathis

    David Mathis serves as senior teacher and executive editor at desiringGod.org, a pastor at Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and an adjunct professor at Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis. He and his wife, Megan, have four children. He is the author of several books, including Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines.

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    "Habits of Grace" - David Mathis

    Day 1

    Grace Gone Wild

    God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

    Ephesians 2:4–7

    Read from the beginning of the introduction through the section Where the Grace Keeps Passing (pp. 21–26).

    1. Refer to the section Invading Our Space. Name at least two ways grace has invaded humanity’s space.

    2. You cannot control or manipulate the grace of God through your various habits and actions. A terrible way to misunderstand this study would be to think that somehow you can. Review the sections Put Yourself in the Path of God’s Grace and Where the Grace Keeps Passing. Draw two circles. Title one circle My Actions and Efforts. Title the other circle God’s Grace. Use symbols or lines, or whatever you would like, to show the relationship between the two circles.

    3. Review the section Flooding the Future. God’s grace stretches back into eternity past and forward into eternity future. Ponder that and complete the following:

    a) State a surprising fact that you learned from this section about God’s grace.

    b) Draw a timeline and title it God’s Grace in My Life. Add and label points on the line to represent the stages of life you have passed through up to now (infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adult, etc.). Add notes to the timeline that identify the ways God’s grace came to you at these different points in your life, the way God’s grace came to you before the timeline began, and the way God’s grace will continue after it ends.

    4. Ponder the grace that God showed you before you were even able to recognize it. Describe or illustrate with a graph or drawing (1) God’s grace that was yours before you were ever born; and (2) God’s grace that was already at work even before you first believed.

    5. Review the section Where the Grace Keeps Passing. Explain or illustrate what it means to position yourself to go on getting as [God] keeps on giving.

    6. Reflect on your reasons for choosing this study. Complete the following:

    a) My goals for this study are …

    b) As a result of this study, I hope

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