dr. Roy Inzunza, D.min

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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

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Choices. Choices make the difference. Two people are in the same accident and severely wounded. They did not choose to be in the accident. It happened to them. But one of them chose to live the experience in bitterness, the other in gratitude. These choices radically influenced their lives and the lives of their families and friends. We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens. It is precisely these spiritual choices that determine whether we live our lives with dignity.

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Another contextual situation we face is the fact that we now have a Christian entertainment industry that is masquerading as worship. How do we attend in reverence and awe before the Holy One of Israel when so much of our worship culture focuses on amusement, diversion, and gratification? I don’t know the answer, but it is clearly one of the realities of our congregational life.

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…Christian spiritual formation is the process through which the embodied/reflective will or “spirit” of the human being takes on the character of Christ’s will.

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