Well.. this entry will be putting an end to what has been my longest writing break for months now. I have been pretty busy though between getting engaged and traveling to India and back.
I am in MN again now and hopefully have some thoughts in my head that are worth sharing with you. I think that I had promised a part 3 to my previous posts... that might still come at some point.. but this is not that point. I'm going to talk a little bit about something else.
What if the "western" process of thinking and understanding is limiting our ability to truly live out a life of devotion to Jesus? That would be a pretty significant thing to find out, if you ask me. What if in our attempt to understand and methodically capture a concrete understanding of faith and God, we have saturated our perspective with an overly structured and limited approach to spirituality and have built ourselves into a cage that is essentially restricting a more complete understanding of the good news and it's intended holistic application?
I think one big issue that christian's in the United States of America face is that faith easily becomes a segmented part of life, and that piece of life has formed into it's own sub-culture. The majority of American christian's are able to clearly draw the line between what is their "faith life" and what is their "______" life. Which seems to go against the whole point of following Christ.
well... that's enough of an entry for me... kinda short. kinda sweet? maybe. I'll write again soon.
Peace.
I am in MN again now and hopefully have some thoughts in my head that are worth sharing with you. I think that I had promised a part 3 to my previous posts... that might still come at some point.. but this is not that point. I'm going to talk a little bit about something else.
What if the "western" process of thinking and understanding is limiting our ability to truly live out a life of devotion to Jesus? That would be a pretty significant thing to find out, if you ask me. What if in our attempt to understand and methodically capture a concrete understanding of faith and God, we have saturated our perspective with an overly structured and limited approach to spirituality and have built ourselves into a cage that is essentially restricting a more complete understanding of the good news and it's intended holistic application?
I think one big issue that christian's in the United States of America face is that faith easily becomes a segmented part of life, and that piece of life has formed into it's own sub-culture. The majority of American christian's are able to clearly draw the line between what is their "faith life" and what is their "______" life. Which seems to go against the whole point of following Christ.
well... that's enough of an entry for me... kinda short. kinda sweet? maybe. I'll write again soon.
Peace.
