What’s the criterion for judging one’s spirituality? It’s changed at least two times since I’ve been following our Leader (in the 1980s attendance was the barometer…since then it has changed). Is what one does within the institutional church structure a barometer today?
It’s been a few years…yet, it has never left my mind. From a back pew I watched a family in front of me model intimacy and connection. They rubbed the backs of their two sons; continually put their arms around them. On a number of occasions the mother whispered to her son, smiled at him, looked him in the eye and then kissed him; he never flinched. Neither teenage boy pulled away from their parent’s incessant loving embraces. Intimacy and connection; complete and full. If these boys and their mother and father are not fully connected to Jesus I assure you their hearts are totally open to Him.
After the assembly was dismissed I approach the father and thanked him for the sermon.
