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As the world moves forward and the church tries to get a handle on the changes that are happening around them, the question to ask is "is the church placing less and less importance on the gifts of the spirit, and conforming to the trends of society?" If the later is the case, then it seems that more and more importance is being placed on peoples natural talents and abilities, instead of what the Holy Spirit has given us as Christians. I am not talking about the fruit of the Spirit, but the gifts of the Holy Spirit. As I search in the Bible to where these gifts are listed, I am left feeling that a mere quotation from the Bible would not suffice here to communicate, what I am trying to say in this article. Of course you have the Catholic gifts, which are different from the evangelical gifts, and there is a strange feeling that these gifts were not given to edify oneself but to build each other up in our faith. Now I will quote a verse from the Bible, "So Christ himself ...

We currently live in the twenty first century. The church is filled with lots of programs, small groups, life groups, men's ministries and so on. But if you could go back in time say three decades ago, you would find a very different world and a very different church. Evangelical churches worked with the same structural model in leadership, doctrine/discipline and discipleship, but you might be wondering what has changed? Practically everything. Let me explain. The worship/walk/work model is just that, a model. Things like life groups or small groups are part of this new model for the evangelical church. How do I know that? Because of something called "man centered theology." If I had to define "man centered theology", it would be simple but not that simple, it is plainly stated any church model of doctrine/discipleship/or discipline that takes it's roots in dialectical thinking. This is not Bible conformity, which is the way that church used to be. The ev...

I have recently taken the initiative on writing a short essay regarding the practice of mindfulness meditation as a Christian. I was born again in 1995 outside the catholic church where I grew up, and discovered meditation by accident in my early 20's. I ventured to California, where I learned the practice of transcendental meditation, during a time when I wasn't practicing my Christianity in the typical way. This was a period of my life when my mind was a mess, I began experimenting with drugs, and had an alcohol problem. I wasn't a heavy drinker, but alcohol was affecting my life in way that I couldn't get my life together. I stumbled into a new age bookstore, and bought a book by a western yogi Master or guru, who founded a meditation community in the 1920's in the United States. My plan while reading the book was to go to India and find a guru, but when I was finished reading the book I thought a visit to a meditation center in California was more realistic. W...