4th November 2012.

Jane speaks to “Prayer & Spirituality: Imitation “from Ephesians 5: 1 - 20. If we are learning from and imitating Jesus then spirituality has to do with unlearning as well as learning. In the New Testament spirituality focuses not just on the individual’s relationship with God, but how the individual flourishes through the group and the group through the individual. We learn many things from our parents – some of this will be in line with what God our spiritual parent does and teaches and some will need to be unlearned if we are to please God. This is also true for church practice and tradition. The NT is clear that we are to follow/ to imitate Christ. We cannot, however, imitate what we do not see and know. The consequences, if we do not learn to imitate the behaviour and actions of Jesus, means we will have no response that is adequate to the current lostness of humanity, the darkness of the evil we face, the vastness of the suffering that is present in the world.

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