Spiritual Formation: An Invitation to Drawing Near The Future of Spiritual Formation
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Jul 11, 2024 A conversation tracing waves in evangelical spiritual life and whether spiritual formation is becoming a new phase. It explores how formation has moved from parachurch trends into seminary and congregational life. The discussion highlights the need for deeply theological spiritual theology and a recovered ecclesiology centered on worship, preaching, sacraments, and the church as a formative community.
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Four Waves In Evangelicalism
- Trevin Wax narrates three evangelical waves: spirit-filled worship, seeker-sensitive church growth, and gospel centrality, with a possible fourth emerging as spiritual formation.
- Kyle Strobel affirms this frame and notes the spiritual formation conversation began in the late 1970s.
Raised In Seeker Sensitive Churches
- Kyle Strobel shares he grew up in the seeker-sensitive church growth movement and attended Willow Creek Community Church.
- He connects his personal background to why Wax’s wave narrative resonated with him.
Academic Incubation Of Formation Movement
- Kiesler maps three waves within the spiritual formation movement: trailblazers (late 70s–88), theological institutionalization (1989–2007), and diffusion (2008 onward).
- Strobel notes academia incubated the movement, allowing slower, relational growth.
