Reflection for the Week- January 19th 2009
Christian love in action is powerful and life-changing, but almost entirely absent in many Christian contexts. Let’s face it. We are in desperate need of deep spiritual renewal. If we are to have a hand in reversing spiritual impoverishment today it is essential to realize that there are no simple formulas, no superficial solutions, and no trite answers. Rather, we should be aiming for something like this. Through the power of the Spirit, we are to exemplify an informed, holistic, interactive, interpretive, theological, and redemptive spirituality that is lived in community with God. Christ’s love is to flow through us and then out of us to each other, our neighbors, our enemies, all people, and the whole of creation. When this starts to happen – watch out, for God is on the move and reversal is at hand.
Dr. Gregory J. Laughery