What is the Best Spiritual Disciplines Book? | Willard vs. Foster vs. Whitney Compared!

Published: 25 September 2019
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Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, and Donald Whitney discuss one of the most important topics of our time... Spiritual Disciplines.
Which do you read first? What Spiritual Disciplines book is best?

Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster, The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard, and Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney, which spiritual disciplines book is best?

It’s tough to choose which book is best, but the two that I will continue to go back to and refer for the rest of my life is Foster’s and Willard’s, which should you read first?

Dallas Willard - The Spirit of the Disciplines is what you should read first, get it on Amazon now! https://amzn.to/2mBaxH4

Next you should have Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline, it is an amazing expounding of some of the most important Spiritual Disciplines list and provides practical steps to start each discipline https://amzn.to/2lwwiaU

If you want to go crazy down this rabbit hole of studying the Spiritual Disciplines then after those two pick up Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life by Donald Whitney https://amzn.to/2lwy2Ru

What Spiritual Disciplines do each of these top Spiritual Disciplines book list?

In The Spirit of the Disciplines, Dallas Willard spiritual disciplines list is broke into two sections.
Disciplines of Abstinence and Disciplines of Engagement. (Love what those words imply!)

Disciplines of Abstinence
Solitude
Silence
Fasting
Frugality
Chastity
Secrecy
Sacrifice

Disciplines of Engagement
Study
Worship
Celebration
Service
Prayer
Fellowship
Confession
Submission

Richard Foster’s, Celebration of Disciplines list is split into three sections, the inward disciplines, outward disciplines, and the corporate disciplines.

1. The Inward Disciplines
Meditation
Prayer
Fasting
Study

2. The Outward Disciplines
Simplicity
Solitude
Submission
Service

3. The Corporate Disciplines
Confession
Worship
Guidance
Celebration

Donald Whitney Spiritual Disciplines List
In Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Donald Whitney Does not “group” his spiritual disciplines list and chose to list them like this.

Bible Intake (two parts)
Prayer
Worship
Evangelism
Serving
Stewardship
Fasting
Silence and Solitude
Journaling
Learning
Perseverance


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