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Moral Formation vs Spiritual Formation

Moral Formation vs Spiritual Formation. Temptation to Immorality. Finitude / Natural Anxiety Pleasure Inordinate / Twisted Desires Habituated / Learned Patterns Original Sin – Genesis 3. Original Sin. Spiritually Dead/Separated from God Emptiness Drive to Fill Under the Wrath of God

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Moral Formation vs Spiritual Formation

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  1. Moral FormationvsSpiritual Formation

  2. Temptation to Immorality • Finitude / Natural Anxiety • Pleasure • Inordinate / Twisted Desires • Habituated / Learned Patterns • Original Sin – Genesis 3

  3. Original Sin • Spiritually Dead/Separated from God • Emptiness • Drive to Fill • Under the Wrath of God • Guilt/Fear • Drive to Hide • Distorted from One’s Nature • Ashamed • Drive to Cover

  4. Temptation to Morality • Control the Future • Long-Term Good • Stability of Civilization • Maximize & Stabilize Pleasure • Cut off Twisted Desires/Impulses • Break Bad Habits • Original Sin

  5. Morality & Original Sin • Empty? • Fill the hole with spiritual things! • Guilty? Afraid? • Pile up good deeds to hide behind • Or just stop being bad! • Ashamed? • Cover/make up for the shame by being better!

  6. Limitations of Morality • Finitude • Persistence of Original Sin • Persistence of Inordinate Desires • Rom. 8:3

  7. Beyond Morality • Spiritual Formation • Relationality: Gal. 3:23-25 • God’s Perfect Wisdom • God’s Healing Capacity • Always working: Rom. 8:26 • God’s Guidance • God’s Redemptive Work

  8. Christ & Original Sin • Emptiness • Indwelling of the Holy Spirit • Guilt • Righteousness of Christ imputed to us • Shame • Our sin imputed to Christ • Persistence of original sin experience?

  9. A Christian Response • Sanctification Recapitulates Salvation • Amos • Listening to the Spirit • Working Alongside the Spirit • Redemption of original sin & beyond • Dealing with Sin as Christ Taught • “Oh beautiful sin…”

  10. Morality and the Christian Life • The nature of the soul • Lewis: “Aim for heaven…”

  11. Final Notes • Comparative Religions • Christ and Sanctification • Rich Mullins: “Be God’s”

  12. An Exercise • Spend 10 minutes asking God where you are tempted to fill the emptiness/ loneliness apart from God • Then spend 10 minutes asking God how tempted you are to hide from guilt through distraction or through morality • Then spend 10 minutes asking God how tempted you are to cover up your shame through being good or fixing mistakes • Then spend 15 minutes asking God to reveal how He has already met these needs and how He wants you to respond to sin and His love

  13. Questions? Want to talk about it? CuriousChristiansQuestion.wordpress.com

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