[amc] a note from the pastor
- From: "garland robertson" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:12:37 -0600
Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church
I trust you are renewed in your spirit as you continue your journey of
faith.
The quest to determine how our physical reality relates to the spiritual
dimension reaches far back into antiquity. Extreme variations in attitudes
about how spirit and matter impact each other has produced an astonishing
display of behaviors. In religious contexts, the subject primarily is
discussed as a consequence of the association of 'spirit' and 'flesh' which
defines the human creature. Ancient explanations regard the human as a
combination of these two distinct elements. In the Genesis account, spirit
and flesh unite to compose the 'soul' of the human which God created in the
divine image. Many persons have sensed that this composition establishes an
unresolved duality of good and evil. The primordial incompatibility of
spirit and flesh requires the faithful to war against the evil flesh in
order to live in union with God. Others maintain that the spirit and the
flesh coexist in harmony. Any disruption that arises for the human
originates from sources removed from the spirit-flesh dynamic How have
religious teachings influenced your attitude about God's intention for
uniting spirit and flesh? What is the perspective which seems to be the
understanding of Jesus as he preached the good news and ministered to
distressed persons ? These thoughts will compose the sermon for this next
Sunday, "The prose of spirit and flesh."
May it go well with you. Sincerely,
Garland Robertson
...always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to
bring some portion of misery to an end
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