Last week I did a post (and an email for those on my email list) titled “Live Wellâ€, juxtaposing the notion of living long with the notion of living well. A friend sent me the following quote during the week, which relates well to the post:
“We have defined holiness through what we separate ourselves from rather than what we give ourselves to.
I am convinced that the great tragedy is not the sins we commit but the life that we fail to live”.Â
 ~ Erwin Raphael McManus from Chasing Daylight
As I write this post, it’s Sunday morning, and all over the western world, folks are preparing to go to church and worship. Well, at least the 20% of Americans who actually attend church on an average Sunday morning. (Note that the number is far less in other western countries.)
But what is “worshipâ€, and is that what’s happening in churches across the country? I was raised as a Lutheran, whose family fell away from church when I was fairly young. In my 20’s, I reconnected with church, and we were extremely active in our church for 15 or 20 years. I rarely attend a church today, and it’s precisely because of that question I raise at the beginning of this paragraph – what’s really happening in most churches? Continue reading “Find That Life”