“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’” (John 8:31-32 NKJV)
Many Christians remain in bondage to fears and anxieties simply because they do not avail themselves to the discipline of the study [of God’s Word]. They may be faithful in church attendance and earnest in fulfilling their religious duties and still they are not changed… They may sing with gusto, pray with the Spirit, live as obediently as they know, even receive divine visions and revelations, and yet the tenor of their lives remains unchanged. Why? Because they have never taken up one of the central ways God uses to change us: study. Jesus made it unmistakably clear that it is the knowledge of the truth that will set us free.
-- Richard J. Foster in “Celebration of Discipline”
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