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Introduction : Grace gone wild. -- Part 1: Hear His voice (word). Shape your life with the words of life -- Read for breadth, study for depth -- Warm yourself at the fire of meditation -- Bring the Bible home to your heart -- Memorize the mind of God -- Resolve to be a lifelong learner -- -- Part 2: Have His ear (prayer). Enjoy the gift of having God's ear -- Pray in secret -- Pray with constancy and company -- Sharpen your affections with fasting -- Journal as a pathway to joy -- Take a break from the chaos -- -- Part 3: Belong to His body (fellowship). Learn to fly in the fellowship -- Kindle the fire in corporate worship -- Listen for grace in the pulpit -- Wash in the waters again -- Grow in grace at the table -- Embrace the blessing of rebuke -- -- Part 4 : CODA. The commission -- The dollar -- The clock -- Epilogue : Communing with Christ on a crazy day
Three seemingly unremarkable principles shape and strengthen the Christian life: listening to God's voice, speaking to him in prayer, and joining together with his people as the church. Though seemingly normal and routine, the everyday "habits of grace" we cultivate give us access to these God-designed channels through which his love and power flow--including the greatest joy of all: knowing and enjoying Jesus