A Personal Growth Finalist in the 2004 Word Guild Canadian Writing Awards! "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me." Jesus takes it for granted that you will hear his voice. But how do you hear it? How do you separate it out from the cacophony of other voices you hear everyday, including those of your own desires? Is your experience of Jesus' voice something purely subjective, or is it something you can talk about with others and have them confirm? Building on the rich spiritual tradition that spans the diversity of history and theology from Ignatius Loyola to John Wesley to Jonathan Edwards, Gordon T. Smith helps open your ears and heart to the depths of the inner witness of the Spirit. By learning to attend to the Spirit, Smith urges, you will learn to hear and heed the voice of Jesus in everyday life. Written with warmth and wisdom, this book speaks to the mind and heart of every Christian who longs for a closer, more intimate walk with Jesus.
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This review is from: The Voice of Jesus: Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit (Paperback)
This book is a wonderful guide on listening to the Holy Spirit. I love to read books that teach me how to judge well instead of making judgments for me. Gordon T. Smith is a masterful teacher, encouraging us to listen in order to discern well. This book is thought-provoking and smooth to read.
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Good Challenge for Cessationists,
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This is an excellent text that reviews the spiritual discipline practices of Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley and Ignatius of Loyola. He addresses the question of whether or not "God speaks today," in a thoroughly biblical manner. Smith looks at the inner witness of the Holy Spirit and gives guidelines on how to discern. He sees the capacity to discern as a critical sign of spiritual maturity. Smith is careful to steer clear of both the cold rationalism that quenches the Holy Spirit, but also the unbridled emotionalism that fosters presumption. I do not believe the author is a "charismatic," but then again he is also not a cessationist. An example (p. 53), "Discernment, then, is not merely a matter of rational analysis, of weighing the pros and cons and seeking to respond with a biblically informed mind to the options we are facing, Neither is discernment a matter of pure revelation, what some call a "word from the Lord." Rather, it is a way of knowing and seeing that is experienced as a profound interplay of intellect and emotion in which head and heart are informing and guiding each other." The writing throughout this book is crisp, winsome and engaging to the reader. It is not a polemic though I believe a soft heart will be strongly challenged by his words.
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Excellent book on a difficult topic,
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Smith takes the spiritual traditions of three different Christian leaders -- a Jesuit (Ignatius), a Methodist (Wesley), and a Puritan (Edwards) -- and pulls out their commonality. This is molded into a model for understanding God's intentions ... or as the book title makes clear, a method for hearing the voice of Jesus. I especially enjoyed his take on "community" as neither being modeled in the individual autonomy of the West nor the Eastern model "which subsumes the individual within the collective". The last chapter, on the process of communal discernment, may be the best. An excellent book.
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convicting ministry, communal discernment, discerning vocation, illuminating ministry, inner witness, vocational discernment, individual discernment, intentional response, affective awareness, holy indifference, fundamental posture, emotional posture, discerning people, moral discernment, appreciative inquiry, discerning person, false guilt, written witness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spirit of God, John of the Cross, Ignatius Loyola, John Wesley, New York, San Francisco, Jonathan Edwards, Making Decisions Together, Old Testament, Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Parker Palmer, Robert's Rules of Order, Downers Grove, Spirit of Cod, Grand Rapids, Loyola University Press, Spirit of Christ New!
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A Christian is a person who has deliberately and eagerly decided to live by the Word of God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
convicting ministry, communal discernment, discerning vocation, illuminating ministry, inner witness, vocational discernment, individual discernment, intentional response, affective awareness, holy indifference, fundamental posture, emotional posture, discerning people, moral discernment, appreciative inquiry, discerning person, false guilt, written witness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spirit of God, John of the Cross, Ignatius Loyola, John Wesley, New York, San Francisco, Jonathan Edwards, Making Decisions Together, Old Testament, Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Parker Palmer, Robert's Rules of Order, Downers Grove, Spirit of Cod, Grand Rapids, Loyola University Press, Spirit of Christ New!
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- The Spiritual Exercises (Hodder & Stoughton Christian Classics) on 9 pages
- The Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards on 5 pages
- The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius by St. Ignatius on page 36, and page 142
- John of the Cross: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) by John of the Cross on page 127, and page 213
- Flame of Love: Poems of the Spanish Mystics St. John of the Cross And St. Teresa of Avila by Saint John of the Cross on page 171, and page 213
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- Sacred Listening: Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola by James L. Wakefield in Back Matter
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