Introduction to Spiritual Formation
About This Class
This class explores discipleship, formation, and Christian ethics, focusing on how to follow Jesus in a more transformative way. Dr. Huber teaches to approach Christian living biblically, theologically, and practically. He provides tools to help you experience personal growth and deeper change as you follow Jesus in community.
About the Professor
Ryan Huber
Ryan, an affiliate assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, is the author of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics of Formation (2020) and FORMATION: How to Read the Bible (2023). He holds a PhD in Theology from Fuller and lives in Nashville, TN, with his family.
Lessons
- Spiritual formation is becoming more like Jesus through the Holy Spirit by renewing your mind with Scripture, discerning God’s will, and applying Christian ethics and spiritual disciplines within a community.0% Complete
- Formation is a transformational process involving training, building, growing, and maturing through the work of the Holy Spirit and human participation, shaped by faith, works, spiritual practices, and the already-and-not-yet reality of God’s kingdom.0% Complete
- Discipleship is following Jesus by responding to His call, imitating His teachings, and accepting costly grace, empowered by the Holy Spirit and rooted in the unity of the Trinity.0% Complete
- Discover how the body of Christ represents the physical presence of Jesus on earth. Believers, through baptism and unity, are shaped by the rhythms of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection to grow spiritually and reflect Jesus’s life.0% Complete
- Christian community grows through brotherhood, sisterhood, friendship, and formative practices like listening, prayer, confession, communion, and spiritual disciplines that build unity and maturity in the body of Christ.0% Complete
- Spiritual formation means aligning your life with the reality of Jesus, the Logos, using discernment to navigate life’s complexities by grounding your ethics and identity in Christ rather than just rules, goals, freedom, or virtues.0% Complete
- The process of spiritual formation involves encounter, confession, justification, renewal, discernment, and responsibility, shaping you through Jesus and helping you align with God’s truth and serve others.0% Complete
- Dr. Huber explains how spiritual formation navigates the tensions of eternity and time, church and world, faith and works, recognizing that Jesus is the resolution.0% Complete
- Formation starts with personal spiritual practices, expands into relationships and cultural engagement, and culminates in responsible political action, guided by listening, reading, and engaging according to the values of God's kingdom.0% Complete
- Individual spiritual formation starts with identity and practices, shaping relationships, vocation, and finances in an inside-out order. Spiritual and relational health lead to vocational clarity and sustainable economic decisions, ensuring fulfillment.0% Complete
- Christian ethics involves discernment, guided by Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience, with virtue ethics emphasizing moral growth through practice and relationships under the authority of Jesus.0% Complete
- Virtue, character, and formation ethics teach you to grow morally through practice, Scripture, and community, aligning your moral life with Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit.0% Complete
- Learn how formation and discipleship shape your moral life through intentional practice, spiritual growth, and discernment, leading to transformation through confession, community, and consistent practice.0% Complete
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