Thus, justification naturally entails the process of sanctification. The further growth in the life and light of Christ through further repentance and the ordinances of exaltation are the natural fruit of justification. The process of growth in relationship with God through grace is the natural fruit of our faith in and love for Christ. This process is sanctification.

The best scripture, in my view, about sanctification is Moroni 10 that ties together the process of growth and the goal of perfection in Christ — what I call Christification or deification:

32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.

I love this scripture because it places the process of sanctification in proper relation to grace and that sanctification consists in denying all ungodliness — or everything about us that is inimical to being godly or deified.

Any way, just a suggestion.

I thought that discipline sentence of Kent’s was one of the best parts of the chapter and I don’t think it uses sleight of hand at all. Honestly I don’t see a substantive difference between your “students of Christ” and “exercising sustained self-control” because I don’t think the two could possibly be separated.

Thomas, excellent suggestion. I’d like to ask others’ opinions on the matter, does the Spirit work differently with everyone or not?

It’s true, there is nothing new under the sun.

That’s my criticism of a fine piece. I don’t think it is weaker if you drop that sentence, or amend it to something like ‘Learning to recognize the Spirit can be be difficult, but is easier when we remember that the Spirit always leads us to Christ and enlarges His words in each of us in according to our individual needs and personality.’ ~

Actually I don’t think I am going against that wikipedia entry. It says the root goes back to “instruction,” or as I said, the disciples were called disciples because they were students of Christ. By contrast, it seems like you are using the word discipline to refer to mean something about exercising sustained self-control. I think that sense of the word is more recent which is the linguistic sleight of hand I am referring to.

And I think the way it’s written here is best, especially for Jesus-ninja kids :)

We don’t know that the Spirit works differently with everyone, but we either take others’ witnesses for it or we don’t. The problem with a “formula” approach to recognizing the Spirit is that when a child tries to make the recipe and doesn’t have a “reaction”, you are kind of out of luck. We could always fall back on, “Well, your heart might not have been right, or you need to exercise more faith.” For practical purposes we must act as if the Spirit does work differently with everyone, since we can’t really tell whether someone’s heart is right or not.