{"id":20602,"date":"2020-07-05T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20602"},"modified":"2020-07-05T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T10:22:16","slug":"a-glimpse-of-a-disciplined-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20602","title":{"rendered":"A Glimpse of a Disciplined Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing that always fascinates me when I read biographies is learning of other people&rsquo;s habits. That&rsquo;s especially true when the subject is extremely disciplined. Tim Chester&rsquo;s <em>Stott on the Christian Life<\/em> is not quite a biography of John Stott, but it&rsquo;s not far off. He gives an interesting glimpse of Stott&rsquo;s normal, well-disciplined routines. Here is what his life looked like:<\/p>\n<p>Commitment to discipline and to the disciplines was a feature of Stott&rsquo;s own personal piety. &ldquo;Fundamental to all Christian leadership and ministry,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;is a humble, personal relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ, devotion to him expressed in daily prayer, and love for him expressed in daily obedience.&rdquo; Stott himself had a number of disciplines he adhered to resolutely. He did not impose them on others in a legalistic way, but they were the framework for his own walk with Christ. His normal pattern was to rise at 5:00 a.m.&mdash;a pattern of early rising he learned from [Charles] Simeon. Stott would greet each member of the Trinity in turn before offering a petition for the day ahead. It was also common for him to recite the ninefold fruit of the Spirit or, mindful of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that always fascinates me when I read biographies is learning of other people\u2019s habits. That\u2019s especially true when the subject is extremely disciplined. Tim Chester\u2019s Stott on the Christian Life is not quite a biography of John Stott, but it\u2019s not far off. He gives an interesting glimpse of Stott\u2019s normal, well-disciplined routines. Here is what his life looked like: Commitment to discipline and to the disciplines was a feature of Stott\u2019s own personal piety. \u201cFundamental to all \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-20602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-quotes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/John-Stott-photo-by-John-Yates-1280x705-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20608,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions\/20608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}