Deeper by Dane C. Ortlund
Week 10: Chapter 9 — Means of Grace
Read Chapter 9 of Deeper by Dane Ortlund. Key passages: Acts 2:42–47; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26; Colossians 3:16.
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Ortlund brings the book toward its conclusion by grounding the interior work of growth in the external, embodied, communal practices Christ has given his church — the ordinary means through which extraordinary grace flows.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Ortlund insists that going deeper in Christ is not a private, purely interior journey — it is sustained and nourished by the visible, communal means of grace Christ has given his church. Why do you think so many Christians in our culture treat spiritual growth as primarily a personal and private matter?
2.The means of grace Ortlund emphasizes — Word, sacrament, prayer, and fellowship — are all intensely ordinary. There is nothing spectacular about them. Why do you think God works through ordinary means? What does that say about the kind of God he is?
3.Ortlund treats the Lord's Supper as a means of feeding on Christ — not merely remembering a past event but actually receiving present grace. How does this understanding of communion change how you approach the Table? What would it look like to come to the Lord's Supper with genuine hunger rather than mere ritual compliance?
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