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Archibaldo
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| Posted 8/19/2004 4:55 AM (GMT -6) |   | Most of these thoughts and questions are new to me within the last couple days, but i am very curious as to what other's answers will be. I had/have struggled with some of the spiritual disciplines throughout life (prayer/bible reading). Since being hired as a youth pastor i have made great strides in this area. I developed accountability with other pastors in the church to make sure i am reading from God's word something that i am not preparing a message on daily, and that i am praying both for my professional life and personal life each morning. I'm happy that these things are still going consistently in my life, however i've had a couple issues that last week or so.
1. Prayer and Bible reading in the morning has not developed as an outpouring of my heart and thus intruded onto the rest of my day. Now don't judge too quick, i understand why these things are called disciplines and did not expect a quick or sudden change, but was confronted with the fact that the rest of my day did not seem spiritually successful.
2. Being on staff at a church and having input and insight into what it is we try to offer and for what reasons, it is easy to be confronted with what success is. We feel the burden to offer prayer,teaching,worship,fellowship,missions etc. etc. to the church so that they can be spiritually successful.
So the question again is, what is our definition of spiritual success. Feel free to answer both your specific honest definition, and also God's preferred church answer definition. They are strangely different things when i look at my own life and try to "evaluate" how i'm doing.
I'll be reading,
Archy
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lock
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| Posted 8/19/2004 8:23 AM (GMT -6) | | My thought is to seek out what is the sourse of your definition of spiritual is? Is it what the bible says is a spiritual man or what the church says or what the people around you say? Are all of these on the same page? Who is it that you are trying to convince you are spiritual? God? Those at the church? Those you are accountable to?
Of course, it hasn't always been this way, but I have the opposite problem. My wife contends that I neglect my family, at times, because of excessive studying of the bible, either reading or conducting word studies of the original words used in scripture, or writing letters to people, etc.
Paul wrote to Timothy "study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not be ashamed" (2 Tim. 2:15).
Think on the questions above and I hope they give you some clarity in this struggle God is taking you through, and that is the important thing to remember, that God is taking you through this.
Lock
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