I was encouraged and convicted by this article earlier this morning. A portion of what I was challenged by is found below, but the whole article is well worth the read. The following is taken from Transparent Lives by Eugene Peterson:
“Right now there is a happy resurgence of interest in spiritual matters both in and outside the Christian community. Why just now? The reasons are complex, but this seems obvious to me: people are fed up with leaders and friends who talk learnedly and officiously about God but show little evidence of being interested in God. People are fed up with leaders and friends who tell them what to do, talk at them about what to do but show very little interest in who they are. The ideas about the truth of God don’t seem to be connected to a relationship with God. Maybe this depersonalization of God and us has achieved a critical mass, and more people are not liking what they are noticing—that there are a lot of people talking about God but seldom to God, that there are a lot of people who are talking at us but seldom to us.”
