Darryl Dash | Building Habits for Spiritual Growth

Spirituality for Ordinary People

"Habits can be a tool, a means to an end, or they can become a distraction if we're not careful because they're not the point—God is the point—they're only there to help us pursue God."—Darryl Dash

Episode 64 of Spirituality for Ordinary People features an interview with Darryl Dash. Darryl is a pastor and church planter in Toronto with over 25 years of ministry experience, and author of How to Grow: Applying the Gospel to All of Life. He serves as pastor of Liberty Grace Church and also helps equip church planters with FEB Central. Together with his wife, Charlene, he founded Gospel for Life, an online resource designed to help people grow.

Key Learnings
The gospel needs to be central to our daily living. "Self-help Christianity" (i.e. "just try harder) is the opposite of living with the gospel at the center of life.

It is possible that half of our life runs on "auto-pilot."

We will do better at connecting with God if we can develop habitual routines - things that we don't need to think about or figure out in the moment.

Darryl talks about 3 core practices to lead to deeper connection with God:

1. Reading or listening to Scripture


2. Prayer


3. Engage in Worship and Community in a Church

Look for the times in your lives when you have effectively built habits in order to know what you need to have in place to develop habits in the areas or prayer, reading scripture, and participation in Church.

In order to develop a habit, make your daily goal so ridiculously small that you are 85% sure you will do it. See B. J. Fogg's website, Tiny Habits, or Mini Habits by Stephen Guise.

Things to Think About
What would it look like for you to pray honestly and throughout your day?

How might God be calling you to share more deeply within your Church community?

What would a helpful habit be for you to connect more with God?

Spiritual Practices Discussed in this Episode
Reading or listening to Scripture

Prayer

Engage in Worship and Community in a Church

Having a regular morning routine

Having a Rule of Life

Links and Resources:

• Darryl Dash's website


• How to Grow by Darryl Dash


• Gospel for Life

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