This Week

This week i head into examining the relationship between context, culture and spiritual formation. rarely have i seen considered these two important two components in spiritual formation. typically as Christians we say to read your bible, study, pray, witness and yet rarely do we examine how our context and culture influence the ways we go about doing these kinds of things, or how they inform our Christian practices.

if i am going to attempt to optimize those practices for the purpose of spiritual development, i must understand how particular contexts and cultural factors come into play in my spiritual development.

this past weekend we launched our spiritual development class with about 15 in attendence. i look forward to building a little community with this group over the course of the next several months. i am amazed at the grace of God in bringing people together. to see a multi-generational group gathered is encouraging. i am hoping we can also experience a mult-cultural group that will add to both our learning and practice. off we go--let's see where God leads!