Spiritual autobiography outline lesson
Spiritual autobiography definition!
Beth Demme
How to Write a Spiritual Autobiography
By Beth Demme
A Spiritual Autobiography is the story of your own life and how God has been present in it.
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It can include your journey in, and out of, organized religion and all things spiritual.
Writing your Spiritual Autobiography is an opportunity to identify specific experiences of God and to reflect on how those experiences have impacted you.
It’s basically the story of your personal journey with God.
Before attending Seminary, I had the pleasure of participating in Sewanee University’s Education for Ministry program.
We started each year by sharing our Spiritual Autobiographies. We didn’t share our entire life stories, we each took about ten minutes and shared a summary of how God had been at work in our lives through the years.
There are a number of ways to approach this exercise and I’ll include some questions at the end to guide you if you want to give it a try. In the meantime, here is an excerpt from my Spirit