I started reading a book I've had for a long time but forgot about. Richard Foster's "Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith
As I looked through "Streams" what struck me was the holistic nature of Foster's ideas and the sense of grounding in the life of Christ that he draws them from. His thoughts are divided into 6 streams of tradition...
- Contemplative Tradition - The Prayer-Filled Life
- Holiness Tradition - The Virtuous Life
- Charismatic Tradition - The Spirit-Empowered Life
- Social Justice Tradition - The Compassionate Life
- Evangelical Tradition - The Word-Centered Life
If you've read it I'd love to hear your thoughts. If your interested and can pick it up it'd be great to have a running discussion.
2 comments:
one of the ibc bible communities recently went through this book, with Sunday teachings. A good, new friend was the teacher/facilitator - Stephen. We recently when to Wheaton and Philly together. I KNOW he'd have great things to share. Our own Richard Carpenter was on a panel discussion there about the "Charismatic Stream." check out the bible study blog:
http://www.centralparkbible.com/
S.O.
Thanks for the info. Crazy that IBC just had a group go through this book. I'm pretty heavy into the Contemplative Tradition and its good...definitely a "stream" that I resonate with deeply. The concepts form Foster coupled with the Disciplines from Adele Calhoun's "The Spiritual Discipline Handbook" seem to work well together.
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