May 2010, Gospel Advocate “Spiritual but not Religious.”

Justin Rogers:

 

Reference May 2010, Gospel Advocate "Spiritual but not Religious."

 

Interesting article. I try to look behind the response. An example is when you ask a child a question and they say "don't know." They know the answer but they have found that if they answer the question another question will follow. If they don't know the questions stop.  So the answer "don't know" does not mean they lack the knowledge they just are not interested in continuing this discussion.

 

I believe when the answer is Spiritual but Not Religious it means the assembly where you mostly sit and listen is not acceptable. Young people want to do something. They want to experience what it feels like to help someone, to teach someone.

 

Worship is serving others. Worship is not singing to each other, not praying for ourselves, not contributing for our own comfort but serving others. As Jesus did, as Jesus would do today.

 

My experience has been that the only reason one is removed from the "prayer list" is when they die. Why do our denominational friends believe God heals and answers prayers while my experience is he does not? For 45 years I have never seen anyone come off a prayer list because a serious illness was cured. Apparently God can handle a slight fever but has problems curing cancers.

 

Charlie Brown was shooting his bow and arrow. When he shot an arrow he would go up and draw a circle around it. Lucy asked him why he was doing that. Charlie said, "This way I never miss." We do that with prayer and Gods' response to prayer. Young adults don't want to settle for that. The Bible says the prayer of a righteous man avails much. My experience apparently has been to never know a righteous man because I have never seen where prayer does much good. But we continue to draw our circles.

 

Worship is not singing to each other, praying for ourselves, contributing for our own comfort, listening to an entertaining speech. We have memorial services all the time for friends who have died so calling the Lord's Supper worship is a stretch.

 

Young people do not want to settle for what we have settled for. Sit and listen is not acceptable to them. Spiritual but not religious does not necessarily mean separation but change. Change means inactivity to activity.

 

But as before, interesting article.

 

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