It’s easy to be overly casual, even lazy, about interacting with God and having a spiritual life that is actually “a life”–one that is alive, active, vibrant, fulfilling!
- In what ways do we avoid commitment? Why do we do this?
- Why is it easy when faced with choices to never actually make a choice, to never get around to taking the next step?
- What is it about us that makes it easy to get stuck in the same place?
- How does having a “compartmentalized” life play into being non-commital?
- What is the difference between “going to church” and “being the church”?
the whole concept of a non-commital Christian was a real refresher to me personaly. I, like many others am one of those people who tend to “over commit” to everything, and that has been spilling over into my spiritual life as well. Hearing about being a non-commital Christian was something I really needed to hear. Thanks!
Life’s struggles has a way of causing me to compartmentalize it just to keep from going insane from it. I think it is only natural. I thought I could maintain a strong relationship with my Lord and Savior without developing and engaging in a local church body. I had Christian friends, so, I wasn’t completely isolated, but they too, were people who for whatever reasons, had given up on “going to church”. I have wrestled for years about the difference of “going to church” and “being the church”, and I have concluded that though I can walk out my faith with my God as a hermit, I will never really “be the church” without “going to church” and allowing myself to rub shoulders with others who are called according to His purpose. If the command to Love one another as He has loved us is true, it requires a committed Christian, not only in a personal relationship with Him but it also requires a committed relationship with a body of believers who, I can be accountable to and who are accountable to me. How that looks, I am still not sure of. What I am sure of is that I have found it at Real Life Church, which I am truly grateful.