Ministering to Eachother

I think one of the most difficult aspects of being a Christian is ministering to someone you know. It's kind of easy to help those you have no regular contact with. You can go to a community kitchen and serve or you can give to a cause, no brainer. But what happens when it's someone that you really know and see on a regular basis. That's some hard work.

We have to pray, alot to know what to say and what to do. We have to get past the awkwardness that comes from not knowing how to approach someone. We have to get over all of that to respond to God's call to love one another, not just casually, but actively.

There are a lot of big needs right in front of us every day. Within our SS class, our church, our companies, and our neighborhoods. God has already equiped us...he's given us the Holy Spirit. Let's trust Him to be there for us and reach out and show some of His love...through us.

Go love someone today.

How to Grow Our Class

What do you think? What do we need to do to grow our class and keep everyone engaged and involved. There's no easy answers...but your positive suggestions would be welcome.

What are you missing? What can we do to fix that? How can you be a part of the solution?

Spirituality and Religiosity...What Do We Need

Spirituality vs. Religiosity. One, the other, or both. It's what we talked about in our class last week. Some say I'm not religious, I'm just spiritual. Can you have one without the other? What is Spirituality in the "Christian" sense of the word?

Most of us agreed that we need some sense of the "Spirit" (that is the HOLY Spirit) in our lives if we are to truly experience God. One of the ways to experience this Spirit is to try to commune with God. We might borrow from the eastern model of meditation and stillness. We might throw in a little bit of Jesus' example of retreating to a place by ourselves. We might even try reading a little of the Bible and letting the words just kind of play around in our minds and soak in.

The bottom line seemed to be that Spirituality is how we live out the relationship we have with God. It is getting in touch and staying in touch with the "otherness" of God...the non-human, transcendent aspects of our God.

What do you have to say???