I’ve been thinking about the academic disciplines lately. The
dictionary says the noun “discipline” concerns either a means (training,
instruction) or an end (behavior, knowledge). I am convinced that personal
perfection, whether intellectual, physical, moral, social, or spiritual,
requires controlled habitual efforts to learn, improve, and mature. I also
agree with William Law that following rules can facilitate these practices. Dallas
Willard says we are formed by our choices and experiences – spiritually and
otherwise – for good or for ill. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus gave us rules
to help us “be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.”
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