“Dallas Willard bridged the divide between the active and contemplative life . . . his account of spiritual growth in Christlikeness is not only cohesive and comprehensive, but is undergirded by a missional vision.”
On January 21st the Martin Institute sponsored a lecture by Dr. Keas Keasler, Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology and Director of the MA in Christian Spiritual Formation and Leadership at Friends University, on the value of Christian spiritual formation for missional living.
In his lecture Dr. Keasler addressed the common misconception that spiritual formation and missional living are “divorced.” This tendency favors the internal work of spiritual formation over the external work of missional living. Dr. Keasler draws on the work of Dallas Willard to correct this misunderstanding. He identifies the missional vision undergirding Willard’s account of spiritual growth in Christlikeness to build his case for “the great remarriage” of spiritual formation and missional living.