{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Newlife Church: Coolangatta","title":"OOL || Rhythms (Week 1) || Rebekah Munn","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2224,"description":"All of us have a calendar. Whether it is written or whether it is felt, we structure our lives in one way or another. The career-driven person has a work-week schedule; the new parent structures their life around the cry of their infant; and the entertainment-addicted modern shapes their rhythms around Netflix and new cinema releases. Each of us adopt a rhythm to the lives that we live. \n\nNow, this wouldn’t be so serious if the rhythms we adopt did nothing to us. But they do. The rhythms we adopt, the habits we entertain, and the practices we put ourselves through—these are not just things we do, these are all things that do something to us. In fact, this is how people are formed. Psychologists know this; dieticians know this; neurologists know this; and, believe it or not, ancient wisdom writers knew this. Every rhythm, every habit, every practice—they all, for better or worse, carry us toward an image of the good life. The question we need to ask ourselves is not whether we’re being formed into something; but what we’re being formed into. \n\nFor the Christian, the image of the good life comes to us in Jesus. Jesus is the king in whose kingdom we want to live; Jesus is the person we want to follow after; and Jesus is the character we want to transform into. Dallas Willard, in his book The Great Omission, said, “The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.” This is the journey of spiritual formation. Or, in other words, discipleship.\n\n“Rhythms”—which we’re using as a catch-all term to refer to the calendar, habits, and practices in our lives—exists to help God’s people to take their formation seriously; to see it as a vital part of their discipleship. Humans are...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vZFLzt0vUHkMrKXKTf4bAkzZK7cHJY0mKQoHxhO3egM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzNzQyLzE2NjIy/MDI1NjYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}