Divine Disciplines

ADVERSITY IS ESSENTIAL FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN 



There is no development of Christ-likeness in a person's life apart from some degree of suffering and brokenness. Difficulties are necessary occurrences in the growth and development of our Christian lives. Christians are not exempt from experiencing trials, problems, and suffering. God not only allows adversity, but he even brings it upon us, at times. He does not do so because we lack faith or because of our spiritual disobedience, but the Lord also uses adversity to increase our faith. It is God’s training ground for spiritual growth and maturity.


Divine Disciplines examines the how and why of God’s discipline. Among the divine disciplines covered in the book are darkness, delay, differences, difficulty, disappointment, disturbance, and drudgery. This book by no means exhausts the various ways by which God disciplines us, but it will be an encouragement and an enlightenment to you as you see some of the experiences of your life through the various divine disciplines.


Bobby Mullins has been in the ministry since 1981, serving five churches as an associate minister before filling the role of a senior pastor since 1991 at four churches in Tennessee and Mississippi. He is currently the pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Hernando, Mississippi. He received a B.S. in education from the University of Tennessee in 1974 and earned the Master of Divinity (1990) and Doctor of Ministry (1999) degrees from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Mullins founded Back To The Basics Ministries in July 2010, with the main ministry outreach being A Fresh Start TV Program, which began airing in November 2010 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and in February 2012 in Memphis, Tennessee. He and his wife, Wanda, were married on May 24, 1980, and have three children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and three grandchildren.