Is a demanding exercise. For it requires us to face the reality of who we are, in our dysfunctionality and pathologies. These are real. Sin, like weeds in the earth, quickly rises up in our lives. It is so easy for it to choke out the authentic, christlike movement of the Spirit into bringing us into conformity to Christ; and to arrest and dampen our hunger and thirst to be more like Jesus.
An atheist friend today mentioned an 'atheist church' meeting. How can people imagine it is possible? Unless they have attended churches where there is but a charade of spirituality; an absence of seeking and meeting with the authentic presence of God.
