With 48 plus years behind me, and all of that spent in the church, it seems there has always been a problem with the life of the average Christian becoming disconnected from real life. Why is it so tempting to try and separate the spiritual from the daily? Here are just a few observations I’ve had over the last few weeks.

How can some things be deemed spiritual and some things not spiritual? Isn’t all of life spiritual considering we are created in the image of God? Is talking about the creation account in Genesis any more spiritual then experiencing Gods creation? Is cooking a meal for my family any less spiritual then studying servant hood? If some things are spiritual and some things aren’t how can you tell where a certain act falls on the spiritual scale? When we thing that some acts are more spiritual then others we tend to divide our lives into the spiritual and non spiritual which leads to walling certain parts of our life off from Gods influence or His use.

This dividing of life into two parts, spiritual and non-spiritual, tends to lead to some muddled thinking. The evidence of this is seen when we think there is behavior that is acceptable out side of church but not inside church as if location or company determines what is right and wrong. If I behave one way when in a “spiritual” context but differently when in a “non-spiritual” context something is wrong.

The consumer approach to church that has and does dominates American Christianity coupled with 1500 years of believing it is acceptable to be part of the church but unchanged has led us to this point.