Since the early centuries, Christians have been known as followers of The Way. Jesus names himself, The Way, The Truth, and The Life. How each generation faithfully finds The Way requires reflecting, debating, theologizing, and even as today, sometimes arguing.
Practicing Our Faith, A Way of Life for a Searching People offers guidance to contemporary Christians. The editor, Dorothy Bass, engages authors from across the spectrum of current scholarship and practice. As she describes in the opening pages, instead of examing the whole of Christian life, the contributors name the most important activies that comprise the Christian life.
Christian Practices are described as: "addressing fundatmental needs and conditions through concrete human acts," "done together over time," "posses standards of excellence," and, show us "how our daily lives as all tangled up in the things God is doing in the world." (pages 6-8). All the practices are necessary for a balanced and healthy Christian life but focusing on one will open up ways to practice the others.
Christian practices will be the focus of the next several posts. Yesterday highlighted the practice of Sabbath Keeping. Today, I invite you to reflect on the elements, or dimensions, of your spiritual life that show you "how your daily life is all tangled up in the things God is doing." What engages you in the world and brings you into closer relationship with God?
Reflecting on the every day, practical dimensions of faith. Practices to shape our lives each day as followers of Christ. Stories to share our practical experiences of wisdom, faith, hope, and love.
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