Podcasts – Page 24 – Contemplating Grace

Podcast of Churchianity vs Christianity, Part 3

When our checkbooks primarily fund Sunday morning worship, we may be practicing Churchianity...

Being a member of a church does not make one a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage makes one a car...

If we place the Church, instead of the Christ, at the heart of everything we do then we are practicing Churchianity instead of Christianity.

We are beloved children of God, but we cannot know this until we have integrated the gifts of the spirit into our everyday lives.

The linking of the birth of the Christ-child with the winter solstice holds a profound message for us...

We lose sight of the reality that all births are miraculous...

When we do not see others, we cast them into the outer darkness of oblivion...

Joy shines through the magnifying presence of the Christ-child...

The farther we stray from our holy center, the less peace we know and the less peaceful we become.

This is our hope: that we would know, or perhaps that we would remember ourselves as the Beloved of God...