Puritan Meditation: The Centerpiece of Spiritual Formation
In our pre-field training and on-field coaching of missionaries, we emphasize the critical importance of feeding yourself spiritually, or in other words, taking the initiative to regularly nurture your soul in a context where the busyness of ministry and stress of cross-cultural living can make it difficult to keep our hearts and minds set on things above (Col 3:1-2). Â Feedback from our missionaries in training suggests that this emphasis is greatly appreciated and desperately needed. Â Â One of those ways that we can feed ourselves spiritually is by learning the spiritual discipline of meditation. Â In this area, we have few better teachers than the Puritans.… Read the whole post