Shiz and I were talking last night about Christianity and what has changed and what needs to change and about how many people who believe no longer attend church. We socialize with each other, we discuss things that are important to our faith, but we don't belong to a certain defined branch of the body. We are the body, and we are changing the way it looks to be a Christian. We don't hand out tracts or lead people in the sinner's prayer or do any of the things that evangelicals usually do. But we are changing the world. We are living our lives as they were meant to be lived, living them to the glory of God, even, but we don't say much about it. We just live it that way. We don't feel the need for all the talk. We are blessing people, we are lifting them up, we are being who we were meant to be as a people of God. We just don't say it out loud the way we used to think we had to.
I don't know if this is completely correct, but I do think it is entirely possible to praise the name of God without saying it aloud with the lips. Surely there are times we will, but perhaps now is a time for action.
I'm all for action, for stewarding the things I am meant to steward, that I've been meant to steward for so long that I've been ignoring.
I think the main problem we've had, as Christians, for the past few decades, is that we have so separated the spiritual from the practical, when they are joined. I believe that we are to live every bit of our lives as a spiritual practice, not that we would go around thinking, "I am doing this to the glory of God," all the time, but that we would simply live rightly in every little thing, not having to point out each spiritual implication because life is organically spiritual if you are living under the yoke of Jesus.
I think this is what He meant when he said, "My yoke is easy, my burden is light." It's not hard at all, just living. But living and having to connect everything which is already connected? THAT is hard.
I feel so much more peace now.
2006-06-22 - 11:30 a.m.
