What Is The Spiritual Life?

I taught a Sunday School class recently at my church. The topic? "What Is The Spiritual Life?" I recorded the teaching and I'm including the mp3 from that talk in this blog post. I hope it will encourage you and challenge you to keep looking for God...

Download The Spiritual Life mp3 (44MB)

For help in following along with this talk, I have included my notes.


What the spiritual life is NOT:

The spiritual life is not...

• Pretending
• Neat, Tidy, or Clean
• A moment in time (i.e. “Arrival”)
• On a schedule
• Isolated
• Hidden
• Reserved for the Acceptable (It is not judgmental)
• Lived by many… (Matt. 7:13-15)

What the spiritual life IS:

The spiritual life IS...

• Connection with God…and others (Mk. 12:28-31)
• Honest
• Messy…very messy! (Delusional thinking; “Someday”)
• A journey
• Listening (“Ears with a heart”)
• Touching felt needs
• Different (i.e. “set apart”; offensive)
• Available to anyone!

The Spiritual Life is... "God in Brokenness"

So, the bottom line question becomes...

Are you engaged in Religion or Relationship?