I wish to explore the questions of how do love, acceptance and community influence people’s expression of faith? Do these three things also affect seekers’ willingness to “give spirituality or religion another chance?”
I note David Tacey’s view that, “Religion and spirituality face each other as paradoxical twins. Without religion, we have no organised way of communicating or expressing truth, no sacred rituals to bind individuals into living community. Yet without spirituality, we have no truth to celebrate and no contact with the living and ongoing nature of divine revelation.”
In understanding other’s lives and the “pulls that draw them into the transcendent”. I believe it is important to be aware of one’s own story, and the nuances …show more content…
I saw the faith I felt so strongly, and one I was called to follow, provided striking challenges to believing that the Christian life was all it was purported to be, or truly embodied what the Holy Bible had declared as God’s desire for us on Earth. (Colossians 3:4)
I note the quote from Tacey, “Religion imposes the ‘big story’ of theology upon our experience, without exploring the ‘little stories’ of our individual biographies, which might give theology a foothold in our lives. Religion is rejected not because a person does not believe, but because he or she is not believed. If religion expanded its horizons to include the spirituality of individuals, it would be renewed by such expansion, and people would not feel excluded, pushed out or irrelevant.”
Even though my calling was shouting loudly and was driven by an authentic connection with God, I maintain that a pulsing, integrated outworking of belief is created to be relational and communal. Living faith is undeniably one of true acceptance and adoption. (Ephesians
I note David Tacey’s view that, “Religion and spirituality face each other as paradoxical twins. Without religion, we have no organised way of communicating or expressing truth, no sacred rituals to bind individuals into living community. Yet without spirituality, we have no truth to celebrate and no contact with the living and ongoing nature of divine revelation.”
In understanding other’s lives and the “pulls that draw them into the transcendent”. I believe it is important to be aware of one’s own story, and the nuances …show more content…
I saw the faith I felt so strongly, and one I was called to follow, provided striking challenges to believing that the Christian life was all it was purported to be, or truly embodied what the Holy Bible had declared as God’s desire for us on Earth. (Colossians 3:4)
I note the quote from Tacey, “Religion imposes the ‘big story’ of theology upon our experience, without exploring the ‘little stories’ of our individual biographies, which might give theology a foothold in our lives. Religion is rejected not because a person does not believe, but because he or she is not believed. If religion expanded its horizons to include the spirituality of individuals, it would be renewed by such expansion, and people would not feel excluded, pushed out or irrelevant.”
Even though my calling was shouting loudly and was driven by an authentic connection with God, I maintain that a pulsing, integrated outworking of belief is created to be relational and communal. Living faith is undeniably one of true acceptance and adoption. (Ephesians