“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” (Acts 2:42 ESV)
The persons and ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus Himself, both rich in the practice of activities designed to strengthen the Spirit, were held constantly before [early Christians]. So, wherever early Christians looked they saw examples of the practice of solitude, fasting, prayer, private study, communal study, worship, and sacrificial service and giving -- to mention only some of the more obvious disciplines for spiritual life.
These early Christians really did arrange their lives very differently from their non-Christian neighbors, as well as from the vast majority of those of us called Christians today. We are speaking of their overall style of life, not just what they did under pressure, which frequently was also astonishingly different.
-- Dallas Willard in “The Spirit of the Disciplines”
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