CHRIST JESUS' COMMITMENT to living what he taught was radical. His actions and healing works gave vivid proof of his statement, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." John 6:63.
There is great joy in understanding that you are spiritual now.
An examination of the life of Jesus, and of the people who have followed him closely, shows that the practice of spirituality means swimming upstream. Instead of drifting along with current opinions as to the material nature of things, Christ's followers embrace wholeheartedly the spiritual nature of life and reality. While many people are certainly reaching out for something more than what conventional lifestyles offer, and in some places the number of people committed to Christianity's healing message is growing, still, materialism needs to be reckoned with. It promotes an endless search for stimulation through the senses, an expansion of theories of ourselves as biochemical beings, and ever-multiplying chemical strategies for cure. This message of materialism is an imposition on the spirituality Jesus worked so hard to define. It would make one question one's own commitment to the effective practice of spiritual healing, which he instituted.
