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-Only one more class before I get to go home ;). Oh snowball fights on the quad. Ya know its not fair to hide behind people we don't know Bree!
Chapter 13 in "Searching for God Knows What" by Donald Miller...religion is something that is very important to me. I love how this guy is so practical. Its just awesome. He goes on to talk about Christian spirituality and religion and how a lot of people use Christianity to gain something for there own belief system.
"The tough thing about Christian spirituality is, you have to mean things. You can't just go through the motions or act religious for the wrong reasons....It is the trick of Satan to get us to perform religious actions without meaning them, After all, if we are going thorough religious motions to get people to think of us as religious, praise us, and all that, we are receiving our false redemption from a bunch of people who are going to be dead in fifty years. This is a shabby replacement for an eternal God."
Yup-that sucked to read--ha.
Seriously tho its been interesting to learn about the start of Christianity and the stuff that has formed it in this class I am taking. Its so funny that we have the same issues hundreds of years later as the early church. I'm not even going to get into it here because I barley get it to begin with.
I like how at the end of the chapter Donald Miller states that he isn't against religion/churches because thats where the people of Christ are, but it is also where the people are that hurt the faith and have a formula religion are.
Overall I think the point of the chapter was to pointing towards loving Christ and Loving others are the important things within the church and the religion and thats what we need to remember.
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