Raw Spirituality
3rd July 2006
Of late, I have been thinking about the kind of spirituality that God has called us to enter into, and when I was reading this post at Cynical Idealist’s blog helped me to clarify some of my thoughts a little better. In her post, Cynical was vexing a little about the sins that some of her peers were getting into, and worried about people who were too callous with this or that sin. One of those worries has to do with those who were flippant about, or were actually reveling in, premarital sex.
Too often, I think, our culture (generally speaking, not just Christian culture, however you define the adjective, but the whole Western Culture, and to a large degree, contemporary culture in all its forms: Western, Middle Eastern, African or Eastern, for that matter), is too fixated with an activity-centered religiosity or an behavioral oriented spirituality. Furthermore, our spirituality seems to be likened to the soccer players who tries to play the game, pushing the rules just enough to be able to win without getting fouled by the referee. Read the rest of this entry »
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