A friend of mine pointed out this morning just how easy it is for us to become comfortable with out religious practice and our spiritual journey. He said that when the time came that he was coming home from church without feeling challenged it was not a good sign. How right he is.
The trouble is that it is so easy to stop growing. Undoubtedly that rightly puts a lot of responsibility on us clergy. But to preach and teach Sunday after Sunday, year after year, in a way that brings the listener to new depths of spirituality is very difficult - especially if we are not feeling renewed in our hearts. And life is like that. There are times when we feel that fresh breath of the Spirit and there are times when it seems as though the Spirit must be working somewhere else. Pray for your pastors, whoever they are. To do our job well we need that regular, fresh infilling of the Holy Spirit.
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