The idea of loving our neighbour in an LP context is to only offer to the group what is directly related to our experience of engaging with the Word. The temptation is always there to find in an LP group meeting a ready-made platform for our proprium to share its cherished views on life. But, as soon…
Seeking to make the Lord God Jesus Christ visible in our midst… "Where two or three are gathered together in My name there am I in the midst of them." (Matt. 18:20)
The structure of the Logopraxis approach encourages a re-orientation in how people engage with the Word. Traditionally approaches taken to engaging with the Heavenly Doctrine have been weighted toward an intellectual understanding of what its texts have to say. In contrast the Logopraxis approach places the emphasis on gaining an experiential understanding of their content…
I thought I would touch on the idea of working in the here and now. From a Logopraxis perspective, this can be understood in terms of being present to the Lord and our own inner states in any given moment but especially when engaging with the text. This idea is an important one so far…
In external life, we are conditioned to set tasks to achieve outcomes and then measure our success or failure against the degree to which the outcome we set has been achieved or not. For the most part, this works so far as external projects and life goals are concerned. Where the inner life is concerned,…
IF YOU CANNOT ILLUSTRATE THE TRUTH YOU READ IN THE TEXT FROM YOUR OWN LIFE THEN YOU CAN BE SURE OF ONE THING, YOU DO NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND IT. One question that arises for people with regard to the Logopraxis approach as an intentional spiritual practice is the relationship of personal experience to Divine Revelation…
While we are identified with how difficult things are for us we will be constantly looking to draw the attention of others to ourselves and our suffering. This need to have our suffering affirmed by others through eliciting their sympathy only gives force to spiritual associations that bind us to an emotional life dominated by…
In Logopraxis work the very act of reading the set text for a given Session Cycle is a spiritual exercise in conscious attention. We all have habitual ways of engaging with written materials that are not helpful when it comes to engaging with spiritual texts. To engage with the Word in this work requires the…
Dear Fellow Logopractitioners, Before Logopraxis was named so, David offered us a “5-Step Approach” to reading the Word. I’ve been reading through his early postings sent out to help us practice then. I am being reminded that as part of taking-in the Text, after the first reading for the session we were encouraged to make…
Can we do what we intend to do? And if we can, why is it that we can come to the end of a Session of work and discover that we have largely forgotten to practise the task we set for the Session? It would appear that we have a well developed sense of an…
Step 1: Do this on the first day of the session: Read the selected Text in one sitting with prayer and an open heart and mind to see what the Text is saying, regardless of your previous doctrinal understanding and regardless of what your current or historical issues are about self-improvement. In some way, mark…