This week, pastoral elder Matt Godsil talks about habituation, which to make or become accustomed or used to something. Or in other words, the meaning is to create a new habit.  This is something that we all do and manage on a daily basis. Listen to hear about how establishing a new habit in virtue and discipleship can make huge changes in your life.

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Sermon Passage: Exodus 19:5-6; 20:1-17

Sermon Outline

Habituation: Doing is a prelude to becoming

• Habituation is one of the three tools of Virtue Eduction, along with Character Friendship, and Virtue Literacy.
• Habituation means that you can shape who you are aby creting habits in what you do.
• Habituation is an intentional repetition of virtuous actions to create habits of character.
• We should recognize the importance of our intention. Character and virtue are shaped slowly over time, constancy is the key, and discipleship is a long walk in the same direction.
• In practicing Habituation, it is good is understand the relationship between the terms "will" & "shall."

Questions for Study/Discussion

1. Even if you are not yet virtuous in a certain area, can you perform virtuous actions? Explain why or why not.
2. How does one shape who you are through the habits you may have intentionally developed?
3. If you were to repeat virtuous actions, how does that virtue actually become formed inside of you?
4. Describe how as you form virtue habits, your character might gradually be shaped naturally in the process.
5. Does Habituation have more to do with the exercise of the will or the activity of the Holy Spirit?