Part 1

What are we doing when we pray?  Ever thought about it?  What does the word ‘pray’ actually mean?  How should we pray?  Do we have examples on how to pray?  Who taught us how to pray?  A myriad of questions, that have answers.

In Deception in The Body of CHRIST: Spiritual Formation Part 1 and 2, we addressed Spiritual Formation, centering on the advocacy of the practice, i.e. that Christians need to ‘do’ something to assist so to speak, in their sanctification, which I and many others have stated, is an all out lie.  The discussion centered on defining Spiritual Formation, the dangers it poses to your Christian  walk, and whether or not there is direct Biblical authority to engage in this discipline.  Yes, we do have free will, and we can and do make choices in our Christian walk.  But we do not ‘assist’ GOD, so to speak in the process of our Salvation.  Which includes our sanctification, justification, and glorification, which is all of GOD, not of man.  If man helps in his Salvation, them man would receive the Glory, and not GOD.  

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