Improvisation & Spiritual Disciplines

If you have already flipped through the pages of this pamphlet and read the section headings, you have come across some old-fashioned and perhaps ominous terms. Each potential discipline certainly seemed unappealing to me at an earlier stage of my life. Wouldn't adherence to methods block the free flow of the spirit? How could I employ such techniques without becoming more self-righteous?

When I attended my first meeting for worship, just before my college studies got under way, I was relie...