{"id":1077,"date":"2006-06-16T04:11:35","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T04:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/j-fryes-jesus-the-pastor-6.html"},"modified":"2006-06-16T04:11:35","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T04:11:35","slug":"j-fryes-jesus-the-pastor-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/j-fryes-jesus-the-pastor-6.html","title":{"rendered":"J. Frye&#8217;s <em> Jesus the Pastor<\/em> 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I opened J. Frye&#8217;s <em>Jesus the Pastor<\/em> Wednesday evening for the next reading, I sighed because it was about &#8220;spiritual disciplines.&#8221; I remember the days when no one, and I mean no one I knew of, had ever heard such language. Then Richard Foster wrote his major book, <em>Celebration of Discipline<\/em>, and poof! everyone knew what they were and thought they were the next best thing for the Christian life. Everyone seems to have a theory of the spiritual disciplines. Well, John surprised me. This chp has insights and perspective of use to each of us.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nFirst, John and I had similar pasts. Neither of us were reared in a tradition that knew the spiritual disciplines.  So we learned them through Foster.<br \/>\nSecond, John has a very good story about meditating on a crucifix and helping Kurt to do the same.<br \/>\nThird, definition: a spiritual discipline is creating space for God to be at work in and through us  so we can be like Christ. And he has a nice section illustrating the disciplines through the life of Jesus.<br \/>\nFourth, John thinks solitude and listening prayer are very important for pastors.<br \/>\nFifth, the spiritual disciplines create for each of us freedom in worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I opened J. 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