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It has been a while!
And yet I am still not fully back to the blog...
I just paid a visit to re-read a post I started months ago and never finished...blame Mr OD because if I remember correctly he called me as I was writing and asked about the topic which led to a long ass discussion on religion at the end of which I knew if I attempted to finish the post whatever point I had been trying to make initially would be lost as Mr OD and I had covered issues that went beyond my post.
I have decided to put the post out without adding anything to it today, not for lack of trying, but because I think I'm out of the zone I was in when I began it and adding anything will probably make me veer off point. That's the thing with me, I need to get my point across when I'm in the moment otherwise it gets lost.
Anyway enjoy reading and here's hoping I get my writing mojo back soon.
"I am a Christian. I was born a Christian, I was raised a Christian, in the Anglican denomination. It's not something I feel the need to advertise nor is it something I go out of my way to hide. For me it's akin to race/ethnicity/nationality, it's part of my make up, it's part of me, it's been that way for as long as I can remember. I go to church, I read my bible, I say my prayers...or more truthfully I try to do all 3 regularly.
However the older I get I find that I spend a lot of time contemplating life as a Christian. Not so much the Christian beliefs, I'm assuming most if not all Christians subscribe to the basic tenet of Christianity, i.e, Jesus Christ: the Way, the Truth, the Life. But more about the religious aspect of the Christian faith. Church attendance, fellowship, the holy communion, praying, bible reading etc.
Take church attendance, in my thirty odd years of existence and church-going on this earth there are maybe only one or two churches that I have enjoyed attending i.e, that I feel like I have left the service fulfilled. So why do I go? Mostly because I feel I must go, it was drilled into me as a child and it's a habit I've kept up with as an adult. If I don't go, I am racked with guilty...well till about 12pm when I know most church services are over and it's too late to rectify my 'misbehaviour'.
I have recently added bible study to my 'life as a Christian'...and I find I am surprisingly enjoying it. Moreso than Sunday morning service to be honest. I think this is because I find I am approaching it like a book club, the bible is the best-selling book of all time after all. So I let go of my (most Christians?) usual notion that one must not criticise or approach the religion and it's beliefs and teachings in a negative way and it's liberating and interesting and enjoyable....and despite whatever criticisms I have and have voiced I still believe in God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit."
