1. Reaching for spirituality
Gal 5:16-18
Rom 8:6-8

2. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Finding Spirituality in Life
Nature
Knowledge
Exercise
Emotional Experiences
Religion
Cairns (Stacking Rocks)

3. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Google search for “looking for spirituality”
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4. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Google search for “looking for spirituality”
Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human experience—something that touches us all.

5. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Google search for “looking for spirituality”
Being a spiritual person is synonymous with being a person whose highest priority is to be loving to yourself and others. A spiritual person cares about people, animals and the planet. A spiritual person knows that we are all One, and consciously attempts to honor this Oneness.

6. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Finding Spirituality in Life
“Through the years I have found my own faith not threatened, but broadened and deepened by the study of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and Sikh traditions of faith. And I have found that only as a Christian pluralist could I be faithful to the mystery and the presence of the one I call God.”

7. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Finding Spirituality in Life
"I'm not a religious person, but I pursue my own spirituality in my own way. It's organized religion that I have no use for."

8. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Finding Spirituality in Life
Gen 1:27, God made man in his image
Like Johnny Lee’s Song
“Looking for love in all the wrong places”

9. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
Finding Spirituality in Life
True Spirituality can only be found through the one true God who created us
All others lack lasting substance
Struggle is real, even for Christians

10. Reaching for spirituality
Where do we look?
In the Church
Changing routine
Focus on Mood, Emotionalism, Excitement, Enthusiasm, Fireworks, Exhibitions, Plays
Mt 23:23-24, Focus on Doctrine in Absence of the Spiritual
Struggle is real

11. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Work
Meeting Schedules and Deadlines
Difficult Situations Arise
Gal 5:16-18, Instructed to Walk in the Spirit
Rom 8:6-8, Instructed to be Spiritually minded

12. II Pet 1:5-7 Faith Love (Agape) Virtue Brotherly Love (Phil.)
Knowledge
Godliness
Temperance
Endurance

13. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Attitude of Kingdom Citizens
Poor in Spirit, Mt 5:3
One who has proper attitude toward self and recognizes God’s place
Rom 12:3-8, Proper Perspective of Self, even those with many talents

14. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Attitude of Kingdom Citizens
Fervent in Spirit, Rom 12:11
Zealous, Passionate, to boil
Acts 18:24-28, Apollos
Rom 9:1-15, Paul

15. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Fervent Towards God
Mt 22:36-38, love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength
Heb 11:6, Diligently seek God
Acts 8:4, Christians went every spreading the Gospel
Col 3:23, Eph 6:5-8, Work with enthusiasm as toward God

16. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Fervent for Good Works
Tit 2:14, Zealous
Tit 3:1, Ready
Tit 3:14, Maintain
I Jn 3:7, 10, Habit
Heb 10:23-26, Encourage each other
I Pet 1:5-10, Add to…

17. Reaching for spirituality
Fruit of Spirit
Love
Agape, Sacrificial Love
Joy
One who rejoices
Peace
a State of Mind
an Encourager
Longsuffering
Long to wrath
our word Patient
Gentleness
Kind toward others
Goodness
Gentle or Kind
Faith
Trustworthy
Meekness
Yielding to others
Temperance
Self-Control

18. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Recognizing God is There
Mt 10:29-31, God sees us
Jas 5:13-18, Prayer Works
Putting God There
Invite him into our lives
God does not go where we do not put him

19. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Product of Effort
I Cor 5:10, Live in world
II Cor 6:14-18, not of or like world

20. Reaching for spirituality
Putting Spirituality into Our Lives
Product of Effort
Prayer
Bible Reading & Study
Singing
Meeting with Saints
Filling in the Gaps

21. II Pet 1:5-7 Faith Love (Agape) Virtue Brotherly Love (Phil.)
Knowledge
Godliness
Temperance
Endurance

22. Reaching for spirituality
How to achieve
Finding Spirituality in all the Wrong Places
Achieving Spirituality in the Church
Achieving Spirituality in our Lives
Putting Spirituality into our lives