| My name is Amanda Bell, I'm 23 years old and I participated in the Saturday morning Discipleship Breakfast, "Practicing the Spiritual Disciplines."
Before going into this class I didn't know there were even 12 spiritual disciplines I could probably have only named a few. I was also only practicing a few of them. This class helped me to get into God's Word and see the importance of practicing the spiritual disciplines. The main point was always stressed to bring you to a closer relationship with God, which was a very powerful point to me and still is. I tend to fall into legalism and thinking the importance is in doing "good things" for God, but I'm continually brought back to this point, "That it's all about my relationship with God."
Probably the most powerful discipline to me is the discipline of solitude because it so difficult in today's society to remove yourself and get alone with God, but it is also so important to do. While in this class we would spend about 2 weeks practicing each discipline which was very helpful, but honestly since leaving the class I went back to my old ways and stopped practicing some of the disciplines. Recently in small group spiritual disciplines were brought up and I decided to add to my list of 2007 goals to go back through the workbook on spiritual disciplines. I look forward to going back through this material and meeting again with God. I am excited about what God is going to teach me in this new year! Thank you Carol for being a vessel for God's Word! Thank you God for using Carol and Your Word in my life!!!!" Amanda Bell
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