Newton Conant, Personal Spiritual Development

Personal Spiritual Development
a 1987 course offered at Biblical Theological Seminary

Newton Conant

Link to Audio	Size	Title
02	9.0 Mb	Prayer Life
03	7.2 Mb	Prayer Life
06	8.2 Mb	The Place of Scripture
07	9.4 Mb	The Will of God
08	8.5 Mb	Victory Over Sin
09	6.1 Mb	Victory Over Self Effort
10	8.7 Mb	The Holy Spirit and Devotional Life
11	8.6 Mb	Christ Our Life
12	10.7 Mb	Missionary Calling (Davis)
13	5.7 Mb	Christ Our Life (Review)
14	8.7 Mb	Chastening
15	8.7 Mb	Called to be Holy
16	7.9 Mb	Christian Suffering
17	8.5 Mb	Christian And His Body
18	8.8 Mb	(Langford)
19	8.6 Mb	Depression
20	8.7 Mb	God-Directed Life (Oldham)
21	8.6 Mb	Christian Finances
22	13.8 Mb	Satan's Attack
24	6.1 Mb	The Christian Home
25	15.7 Mb	Brokenness (Jewell)
27	8.9 Mb	Christian Life as God Planned It

PERSONAL SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

Outline

I. Purpose of the Course

Teach students the supreme value of heart devotion to Christ. Practical applications. Academic excellence, though desirable, fruitless apart from Christ-centered life. (I Corinthians 13:1-3)

Quotations

"A laborer can be subtly steered away from being Christ-centered to being ministry-centered .... With the immensity of the task, it can be easy to shift from Christ Himself to Christ's work. That change contains the seeds of disaster." Navigator Magaine.

"Possible to have well trained but barren graduates."

"A chilling orthodoxy without a living Christ."

"Scriptural knowledge however profound and extensive, Biblical Criticism however accurate and valuable, may leave the heart barren and the affections cold. Our great need is to find the Lord Jesus Christ in the Word, and having found Him to feed on Him by faith." C. H. MacIntosh.

Dr. Boice - In Eternity, March 1986: "In a recent survey of a theological college in the United States 93 per cent of those students preparing for the ministry confessed to no devotional life at all. It is a sad situation. Without deep communion with God, preaching lacks power and will inevitably be despised."

II. Topics to be Discussed (among others)

1. Christ, the believer's life.
2. The prayer life.
3. The place of the Word of God.
4. Victory over sin - God's provision.
5. Victory over self-effort.
6. God's provision for holiness - the Holy Spirit.
7. The Christian's body.
8. Chastening by God.
9. Christian suffering.
10. Living in the will of God.
11. Victory over the world.
12. Victory over Satan.
13. Victory over worry - depression.
14. The Christian Home.
15. God's teaching about finances.
16. Broken before God.
17. Summary - examination explained.
18. Guest speakers - personal testimonies - occasionally.

III. Books

A. Required Reading

Absolute surrender - Andrew Murray
Prayer - E.M. Bounds
Hudson Taylor's spiritual Secret

B. Required Term Paper

Five or six pages -- any book on the following list.

C. Recommended Reading

True Spirituality - Francis Schaeffer
Celebration of Discipline - Richard Foster

D. Books for Term Paper

    The Prayer Life - Andrew Murray
    The Inner Life - Andrew Murray
    Life in the Holiest - Andrew Murray
    With Christ in the School of Prayer - Andrew Murray
    The Fruit of the Spirit - Sanderson
    The Ministry of the Spirit - Gordon
    He that is Spiritual - Chafer
    Holiness: True and False - Ironside
    Holiness - J.C. Ryle
    Conformed To His Image - Conant
    Not I but Christ - Hession
    The Calvary Road - Hession
    The Knowledge of the Holy - Tozer
    The Pursuit of God - Tozer
    The Christ Life for the Self-Life - F.B. Meyer
    The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul
    Memoirs of R. McCheyne - Bonar
    How To Keep a Spiritual Journal - R. Klug
    The Normal Christian Life - Nee
    The Minister's Inner Life - Burnout

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