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Severino & Richard Cirillo - New Release: Spiritual Arrest

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One of many things Aiden Wilson Tosser, a modern day prophet, lamented was the problem of our churches:'the shallowness of the inner experience, the hollowness of the worship and their servile imitation of the entire world in their promotional methods.'

Sixty 36 months from the time Tosser wrote those words we are still in exactly the same situation. It appears that nothing has improved with our church condition. Our churches continue to be filled up with men and women whose inner experience is quite shallow, whose worship is hollow, and whose promotional methods are a servile imitation of those of the world.

Since Tozer's time we've had countless church conferences, more evangelistic camps than ever, an Ecumenical Council, several local church councils, synods, encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, books on church planting and discipleship too numerous to count, and yet the overall degree of our spirituality in the churches seems not to own gained comprehensive or in height. The principal reason behind this is that both church leaders and members generally speaking have not yet found their spirituality. There is therefore an urgent have to lead more and more individuals, both church leaders and members, to find their spirituality.

Church leaders think they have found their spirituality by their training in the seminaries, theological schools and updating seminars, by their involvement in renewal movements like annual retreats, monthly recollections, daily prayer exercises, etc. They do not realize they are insufficient to own some type of spirituality that basically has an impact on their lives and those of others.

Church members may not really know that they have a have to find their spirituality. They believe that accepting Christ as personal Lord and Savior and being filled up with the Spirit are enough to empower them to witness to others. That is why there is often a have to lead others, church leaders and members to find their spirituality. How do you start doing this?

To begin with, the one who intends to simply help someone find his / her spirituality must himself or herself have a greater connection with this spirituality. Water always seeks its own level. The spirituality of those you are helping never gets greater than yours as long as they are influenced by you. How will you help someone find her spirituality if you yourself haven't found it?

If you yourself have had no in-depth connection with spirituality you can't hope to simply help someone find her spirituality. If you have already found its way to your spiritual life, when you have reached your destination in your spiritual journey, only then are you able to tell others about this destination and the best way to it. Now you may make them find their spirituality when you have discovered yours.

The second thing to accomplish after being certain yourself that you have discovered your spirituality is to make clear to others what the destination is in a life of spirituality. You're just like a tourist guide. When you guide a tour group, you tell the members of that group what the places are that they are likely to go through, such as the culmination of the tour. You will not describe in more detail what they will find in most place however you will offer a brief and correct description of each place.

The same does work in the spiritual life. You tell those who follow you what this spiritual destination is, namely, union with God or others would choose the term "self-realization." Then you describe generally speaking what this union with God or self-realization entails, that it's not really a life in heaven, in the other world, when they die, but it's something accomplished while they are still physically on earth.

Again if you're a tour guide you may also brief your tourists how you are likely to your destinations, whether it is by bus, by train, by plane, by boat or by other method of transportation. The same does work in the spiritual journey or a journey to find one's spirituality. You tell your spiritual tourists the method of your spiritual journey, like reading the sources of your religion or faith, meditating on these sources in a solitary quiet place and obeying what the Spirit tells them to do.

Then you let them go and find their spirituality. Permit the Spirit to lead them where he desires to lead them. Don't interfere https://www.amazon.com/Vuoto-Infernale-Italian-Severino-Cirillo-ebook/dp/B0798MLCWF/. A very good way of doing this is by providing your spiritual tourists a copy of the book INTERIOR CASTLE by Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada. In this book she describes this spiritual journey, its destination and the means towards this destination. It is just a spiritual masterpiece.

Imagine what might happen if our church leaders and members would devote their energies to finding their spirituality, to undergoing a journey in spirituality and enabling others to also undertake this journey. Don't think that this isn't possible. I know of a Catholic parish where this is being done. I thought that its parish priest had mystics for his parishioners. No, they are not religious mystics confined in a monastery. They are ordinary human beings as you and me. And yet they are truly mystics, they are men and women in their spiritual journey to union with God.

If we've more of the parish where its parish priest leads his parishioners to find their spirituality, we would have significantly more and more Christians who'll become levers lifting humanity and the rest of creation closer to their Creator. From our studies in physics we all know that the longer the lever the easier it's to lift the weight on the other end of the bar. So also in spirituality, the more men and women we've who have discovered their spirituality and are spiritual, the longer our spiritual lever is likely to be and the easier it is likely to be for most of us to lift humanity and the rest of creation to your Creator.

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