Comments on: The Timeliness of Christ http://nomastery.com/2009/10/22/the-timeliness-of-christ/ Nomadic monasticism Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kel http://nomastery.com/2009/10/22/the-timeliness-of-christ/#comment-103 Kel Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:39:55 +0000 http://nomastery.com/?p=26#comment-103 Interesting article. And all the more authentic as I've been on the receiving end of hospitality, friendship and time with your family :-) Several years ago I decided that to be more spiritually alive, I needed to do less, and it was quite a process working through the priority list of what would stay and what would go - funnily enough, a lot of the religious structure we found ourselves in treated busyness as a badge of honour In Too Busy not to Pray, there's a statement that links busyness and worldliness. “The archenemy of spiritual authenticity is busyness, which is closely tied to something the Bible calls worldliness—getting caught up with this society’s agenda, objectives and activities to the neglect of walking with God.” Busyness. Worldliness. Words with the suffix -ness at the end mean “the state of being.” So the state of being busy is tied to the state of being worldly. One would think that we—who are called to live radical counter-cultural lives—should know little of being in these states. Interesting article. And all the more authentic as I’ve been on the receiving end of hospitality, friendship and time with your family :-)

Several years ago I decided that to be more spiritually alive, I needed to do less, and it was quite a process working through the priority list of what would stay and what would go – funnily enough, a lot of the religious structure we found ourselves in treated busyness as a badge of honour

In Too Busy not to Pray, there’s a statement that links busyness and worldliness. “The archenemy of spiritual authenticity is busyness, which is closely tied to something the Bible calls worldliness—getting caught up with this society’s agenda, objectives and activities to the neglect of walking with God.”

Busyness. Worldliness. Words with the suffix -ness at the end mean “the state of being.” So the state of being busy is tied to the state of being worldly.

One would think that we—who are called to live radical counter-cultural lives—should know little of being in these states.

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