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ALSO BY JOANNE J. JUNG

Character Formation in Online Education

Knowing Grace: Cultivating a Lifestyle of Godliness

Godly Conversation: Rediscovering the Puritan Practice of Conference

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The Lost Discipline of Conversation

Copyright 2018 by Joanne J. Jung

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So to Him who is worthy of all worship and praise, thank You. I remain humbled and amazed at the countless ways You have guided, surprised, encouraged, and provided words, ideas, templates, resources, friends, and family. Thank You, and for You, this work of my heart and hands, Your Majesty.

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by Kyle Strobel

When I first started studying Puritan spirituality, I could not believe the riches I found. I felt as if I needed to glance over my shoulder, as if Id uncovered a secret treasure that someone purposefully hid from view. Like many of those raised in evangelicalism, I came to believe I had to go outside of my own tradition to find real spiritual depth. I discovered in time that nothing is further from the truth. Richard Lovelace, in his work Dynamics of Spiritual Life , coined the term The Sanctification Gap and addresses our failure to attend to the abundance in our own spiritual tradition. He claims, There seemed to be a sanctification gap among Evangelicals, a peculiar conspiracy somehow to mislay the Protestant tradition of spiritual growth and concentrate on frantic witnessing activity, sermons on John 3:16 and theological arguments over eschatological subtleties. While evangelicalism is no longer mired in eschatological subtleties, Lovelaces critique remains as accurate now as it was nearly four decades ago. There is a sanctification gap in the evangelical churchwe recognize the difficulties of the Christian life, but we do not know where to find the answers.

It was not until I started working on Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards that I began to pull together a synthesis of Puritan spirituality. Once again I was confronted with a treasure that had remained lost, the very treasure Lovelace names. I discovered depth of insight concerning things like meditation, church practice, and prayer, but what caught my attention most was a spiritual practice called conferencing. The problem with expositing Edwardss view of conferencing was that he rarely talked about it, but instead would drop the term into letters or sermons as a practice he supposed was obvious. Edwards did not talk about conferencing because he had read his Puritan heritage deeply and simply accepted their insights. His role as a pastor was not to introduce his people to conferencing, they knew what it was, but to encourage, teach, and shepherd his people in the practice through his sermons, pastoral care, and his own personal practice. In other words, what Edwards was able to assumethat everyone knows and understands conferencingis something we cannot assume at all. There is a sanctification gap in evangelicalism, and we need to recover the wisdom of our fathers and mothers in the faith.

What Joanne Jung has done in this book is recognize a key aspect of this sanctification gap and address it in a way few of us could. Instead of simply prodding readers to pick up Puritan works, Joanne walks us into their insights directly, shepherding us through their wisdom and showing how we can recover it for the church today. The goal is not simply understanding our tradition, but learning from it so that we can follow Christ more profoundly. In particular, conference guides us into meaningful, authentic, and life-changing relationships, providing a map for how we can give ourselves to a deeper sort of existence. In an age of social media, where people are trained to relate at one another and not with them, conferencing provides a desperately needed remedy to our spiritual amnesia. Read this book, but do not merely read it, follow its directions into a way of being with your brothers and sisters in Christ.

KYLE STROBEL

If you are at all familiar with the works of the English Puritans, then youll understand why I chuckled when we decided on this title, TheLost Discipline of Conversation: Surprising Lessons in Spiritual Formation Drawn from the English Puritans . Its a little long but would have been considered brief in the Puritans minds. For instance, here is the actual title of John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress : The Pilgrims Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, shewing the several difficulties and dangers he met with, and the many victories he obtained over the world, the flesh, and the Devil, together with his happy arrival at the Celestial City, and the glory and joy he found to his eternal comfort . Their titles clearly described the contents of their works. No guessing was needed. If youre not familiar with Puritan works, then welcome! I was a stranger to them just fifteen years ago, and since then they have become some of my best old dead friends. Under great and unthinkable persecution, they took to their pens. From that treasury we have the preserved works of practical theologians, physicians of the soul, and passionate thinkers. Men and women contributed to their own and others spiritual growth, and one key way was through conversation.

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