What is Christian Spirituality?

Colleen Griffith discusses the reality of diverse Christian spiritualities and the centrality of practice to any authentic spirituality.
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[@GabrielaGarcia-qw9ck]

❤ AMEN ❤

[@truehelper200]

Life is not in you without Life Himself Jesus Christ ! The Time is Short and the Door of Mercy for the Lost Sheep is closed soon.
As soon as it closes you’ll have to face eternal torment and isolation from any joy. Come Home while you still can !!

[@derDeutsche-mh2zj]

What a cruel "God" you have.

[@daveh6017]

I've been tormented for about 5 years in my head, and not diagnosed with schizophrenia, but simply put it down to spirituality. And these are actual real seeming conversations with ex-friends and people due to an integrated new society that i presumed loads of people were in and able to speak in their heads apart from me. They do respond to everything i do, but recently they’ve been telling me it's a private spiritual development and i'm not actually speaking to anyone. They said my mum was in hekll for 30million years every 2 minutes and my dad was in hell for 25 years. I have noticed my dad acting strangely and also my mum. I am the most sane person i know and i'm well grounded. There's one person called Danny baker who repeatedly called himself the devil. Anyone had similar?

[@flarisa2737]

Seems like someone is messsing with you. Father God won’t allow this.

[@markbrock8662]

My mom has these voices. It is difficult to understand, yet in a way quite simple. It seems to me that the voices are the embodiment of her own thoughts that have become very habitual over the course of her life.
I had a spiritual awakening almost 2 years ago where I felt the presence of God lifting me up when I was going through a very painful period.
It wasn't subtle. It was quite amazing. I knew suddenly that God was with me personally and he showed me His presence. My fear of death vanished at that time. The love and connection I felt in that experience was beyond words.
What I have come to understand since is that there is an awareness in me that is far beyond my own thinking, beyond my thinking mind. I have since known others who have had the same type of experience and they are easy to recognize. Look in yourself for the awareness that is beyond the thinking mind. The mind is but a tool. It can torment us with thoughts (or voices) or it can come under the direction of our spiritual awareness. But we must first come to realize our own spiritual awareness. I liken this awareness to being born again. That is where we actually connect and know God. We do not have to be subject to the thoughts or voices in our heads. It seems we are taught to believe we are just our mind and our body. Neither of these is true. These are both aspects of our being, but our core is spirit.
For me it was a moment of grace. God was responsible for this revelation, not me. The only thing I did was earnestly seek him and call on him in prayer, and I put nothing before him. I was willing to release anything and everything that I thought I knew, so that I could come to know and be with God. And I mean everything.
My prayers are with you Dave. Keep seeking his presence in your life. It is right there at your fingertips.

[@markbrock8662]

These all sound more like spiritual Christian religion than living in the spirit actually. There is something deeper than spiritual practice. We are spirit, in Gods image. Find this.