The best distance to affect spiritual formation in another is three feet or less.
As I’m letting go of my OCD, checklist faith, I’m growing in my confidence that the Christian life does trump the alternative—and not just for the post-death part.
So, as with a company, we assume that spiritual success is at the top of the ladder. It’s not.
That shouldn’t surprise us: that’s how God designed it to work.
One of those plans prevents us from devolving into the freak show world we’d own if we always got our way. We’d probably blame God for that little wonderland, too.
The Christianity I now know conquered my formerly-prefabricated faith.
Is it that hard to think there’d be more than one way to communicate with the God of creativity, variety, and inspiration?
That sounds so liberal and lazy to my old churches—probably because they can’t measure it, codify it, cross it off of their OCD lists. I know; I used to be that checklist guy.
The New Testament church is to welcome sinners of all ranks, all vices. Like Lady Liberty, we are to invite the broken, the bankrupt, and the becoming. But we are commanded to present the whole Truth, the complete message.
Copyright © 2012 Ryan George
