Reflection Paper On Harold Senkbeil's Dying To Live '

Reflection Paper on Harold Senkbeil’s Dying to Live

In the book, Dying to Live, the author, Harold Senkbeil, explores the Christian faith in other ways than the Authors of the previous books that we have read in this class. I feel like this book is one that allows the reader to really understand and grasp certain concepts within the Christian religion. The book doesn’t just blatantly tell the reader what the Christian faith is and why it’s important, but it allows the reader to connect with the ideas and shows the reader how we play a role in the whether we live the life that God intended for us. Senkbeil does this by explaining why our world is “dying” in his eyes and what is done to ensure that God still has a place in our lives as Christians. …show more content…
Baptism allows us to unite with Christ through his death and resurrection and blesses us with the ability to live life as God intended us to live. As the title of chapter four implies, baptism is really the water of life. Through baptism we are granted a brand-new life and are accepted into Gods heart. Also, baptism allows us to never be alone because after we are baptized we are never alone, as Jesus then lives in us just as we live in Jesus. Even though when we are baptized become one with Jesus and God and are forgiven of our sins, that doesn’t mean that we have a pass to do whatever we want because we are forgiven. I think Senkbeil makes a good point in saying that; although, baptism may cleanse of our sins it doesn’t give us a free pass to do whatever we want and sin. I feel like today many Christians may do things that they know are wrong or sinful but feel that if they just pray that they will be forgiven everything will be forgotten, but that isn’t how it works. We constantly have a struggle with our “inner Adam” and may be drawn to sin, but as a Christian we should try to do good. However, with that said that isn’t always the case. Another good point that Senkbeil makes is that simply confessing our wrong doings to a friend or praying at night isn’t enough for God to truly except our sins. Confessing should really be done to a pastor, preacher or someone with the …show more content…
At first this concept didn’t really make sense to me, but after thinking about it and applying it to our lives it started to become very apparent that, that is in fact a valid statement. In my mind saying that everything we do in life is liturgical is like saying that everything that we do in life is to serve God, whether we know it. People are put on this earth to do a variety of different things, and each one is put here by God to do a specific thing. For example, a Doctor is meant to help others, a Garbage man is meant to help keep society clean and a secretary is meant to help the life of others so that they can help even more people. Even though we sometimes we may stray from the way of life that God intended for us we are all here to do something good in the