More Sunday Thoughts…
As my good buddy Kent West so eloquently put it in a comment on my last post,
“Sanctifying (“setting apart”) a few hours of a day as “holy” causes us to adopt a compartmentalization mindset: “Now I am in my Holy Mode”; “Now I am in my Everyday Mode”. I believe such compartmentalization (including the special clothing) is unscriptural.
This was exactly my point on the post last week. It really seems to contradict everything we live for if we set some “special” time to “worship”.
As I have said in previous posts I am currently a University Minister. I love it! The thing is though that I want to teach them regularly which means I never get to go to class. The elders have often times told me…”Robert, get someone else to teach the class for a little while, and you find a class you enjoy so you can be fed spiritually”.
Maybe this is what “worship” should be. A time for us as Christians to be “fed spiritually”. the problem with this thought is that I truly believe, and I have heard many teachers say the same things, that I learn (read: get fed spiritually) by teaching. I am fed spiritually by my service to others.
If our life is truly a living sacrifice to God as he calls it to be, then wouldn’t every second of every day be spiritually fulfilling? It seems as though by living as Christ did, loving others no matter their situation in life, we would have a much closer relationship to God. Not only that, we would be much better evangelists of the gospel, because we would have more credibility instead of the hypocrisy the world sees.
Just some random thoughts, feel free to comment.
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