Intimacy with Christ: Knowing God Through Disciplines, Day 1

Chuck Swindoll explains the meaning of intimacy with God and how to find it.

Superficiality and Deep Living

• The need for deep people rather than intelligent or gifted people
• Speaker's personal desire for depth

Concerns for the Gifted and Intelligent

• Challenges for those with high intelligence and gifts
• The danger of relying on one's own abilities rather than seeking depth

Focus on Intimacy

• Importance of intimacy with Christ
• Personal anecdote about discovering intimacy through a mentor and the Amplified Bible

Philippians 3:10 and Knowing Christ

• Various Bible translations of Philippians 3:10
• Speaker's determined purpose to know Christ deeply
• Personal reflections on the verse during seminary years

Reordering Life for Depth

• Simplifying life to pursue intimacy with Christ
• The discipline of simplicity
• Being still and the discipline of silence
• Cultivating serenity and the discipline of solitude
• Trusting God and the discipline of surrender

Personal Reflections and Challenges

• Speaker's journey towards depth and intimacy
• Struggles with the world's distractions
• The need for disciplines to achieve intimacy

Practical Suggestions

• Four key disciplines to develop intimacy with Christ
• Reordering life and embracing simplicity
• Finding time to be still and practice silence
• Cultivating serenity through solitude
• Trusting God through surrender

Warnings and Encouragement

• The danger of busyness and clutter
• Competition and envy as barriers to simplicity
• Personal anecdotes about life's clutter and busyness
• Encouragement to focus on Christ and simplicity

Closing Thoughts

• Psalm 46 as a reminder of God's control
• The imperative to be still and know God
• Prayer for deeper and more intimate knowledge of God

Conclusion

• Call to be still and reflect on God's presence
• Closing prayer and hymn

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