How Can a Healthy Religious Community Help You

Host: What will a healthy religious community do for me?
Rock Schuler: A healthy religious community; being a part of a religious community gives us a sense of fellowship. We understand that there are other people on the spiritual journey. It is incredibly difficult to take the spiritual journey. It is almost impossible to have a fuller, richer sense of the spirit in life without sharing that journey with other people.
So, at the most basic level, a healthy religious community helps us draw strength from others who are like wise on the spiritual journey with us. We all know that it is easier to travel when there are two or more traveling together. So, a spiritual journey offers that companionship. They are going to give us some ways that help us on the spiritual journey, as well. They are going to nurture spirituality in our family. They are going to teach us, how to share our spirituality with children. Spiritual communities offer us the whole history of the experience of human beings in dealing with the spiritual; how do we pass on the faith to our children? How do we integrate spirituality into our daily home? How do we pray over meals? How do we find the presence of God at work?
Spiritual communities have at least the experience of previous generations as they have try to answer those questions. So, they bring us companionship, they bring us guidance and wisdom. They bring us strength for the journey.



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