The Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Knowing God

This book is for the frustrated Christian. Personal devotions are disappointing, and everything we hear at church sounds like "feel good" and "try harder." Something is missing in the life of the average Christian. What is missing is spiritual life. True spirituality is knowing God-directly, personally, intimately. This is the simple truth in which faith begins but which the Christian life can never exhaust. What average Christians are missing is an ever-growing and ever-deepening intimacy with God in our inner lives, especially in prayer. This growing intimacy with God is the essence of the truly spiritual life. This book lays out the path to genuine, biblical spiritual life. Part I examines the Tabernacle as the biblical diagram of spiritual worship and examines the requirements (repentance and willingness) for living the spiritual life. Part II shows how prayer is the entryway into spiritual living, and it gives practical suggestions for personal and corporate prayer. Part III surveys the cost and the benefits of living spiritually.

Revised edition.