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We live, like the ancient Chinese curse, in interesting times.
I ran into my pastor at Starbucks recently (he’s now leaving us to teach at a nationally recognized seminary). Perhaps the first time I’ve ever really had a real conversation with him. I told him about how most of what I needed to know for my own spiritual growth, I got out of books, not anything I learned in any church I’d ever been to. Perhaps a little bold, in retrospect, since that included his church, but he said something interesting.
That that was his experience as well.
What kind of state is the church in where a parishioner and a pastor both admit that they almost never learned what they really needed to know in church? About spiritual growth? Kind of the church’s mission isn’t it?
I know the old saying, attributed to St. Francis when I heard it that, “You should preach the gospel at all times, and, if necessary, use words”. Problem is words are necessary. Observing something without knowing what’s behind it is the death of knowledge, it keeps it from being passed on. When it comes to being a better man we have precious little to observe and almost no explanation. This is a state of affairs that cannot continue.
This blog is about dating, and everything applies to that as well. But dating is not a sector of your life cut out from everything else. Done right, you’re displaying who you truly are to a girl, your best self, someone she can trust, someone she has every reason to be attracted to. But, if you don’t know how to be better than you are now, you won’t have the tools to be better.
Because being the way you are now hasn’t worked out very well has it?
Michael D.