Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments.
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