Thursday, August 23, 2007

Spiritual Development and the Church

I started my day at a meeting that has been playing in the background throughout my various functions in the office. It was a challenging meeting that raised interesting questions about the purpose of church leadership and what happens to people once they enter the church culture. How do people become teachers rather than remaining is a position where they need to be continually fed?
What does the journey through spiritual development look like?
I tend to see most people presenting Christ as a means to a better life and an escape from hell. This seems to have germinated in our western marketing culture. The problem is that people continue to depend upon the church to show them that better life and rarely give thought to the escape from hell.
The Scriptures teach that if anyone is going to come to God he must first believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. It would seem that when we seek a better life that we are seeking the wrong thing. God is a rewarder of them that seek Him. I wonder how much our Christian worldview has drifted away from the Creator God who is and the fact that Jesus Christ came to reconcile us to God.
Just Thinking.

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