There is a huge spiritual hunger that is manifesting today that traditional institutional Christianity can not fulfill. Humanity is recognizing that all life is at root spiritual, that everything we see is formed and sustained by what we cannot see. {There is an entire market of Christian books that clearly show this spiritual thirsting; A Journey that I have personally been on for at least the past 7 years. Titles like, Radical, Finding Organic Church, Unchristian, The Christian Atheist, Pagan Chrisitanity have all attempted to piece together the puzzle to this spiritual void.}
To fill the void our authors have offered the cause: The collapse of the brass heaven. Christian intellectuals and apologists have attempted to accommodate the modernist world view by reformulating faith by watering down or banishing its mysteries in order to pass the scientific rationality test. {Now we have a unique opportunity to restore a proper understanding and application of miracles, the Trinity, divine presence and all such things spiritual that were sacrificed for the modernist perspective. But we also have to keep in mind that we are competing with secular views of spirituality who are seeking other spiritual answers outside of Christianity due to their mistrust. We have to understand that one of the reasons for their mistrust is because of our lack of proper teaching. We appear fragmented with denominations and hypocritical in believing in something such as spiritual issues, by not being able to explain them or habitually practice them... The bluff that technology will solve all of our problems will also be an obstacle to overcome from those who cling to that worldview.}
@ Lana: If you notice, we will find out more about heaven by reading this book. Everything we see is formed and sustained by what we cannot see. That's a start! Can't wait to read on!!!
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Shouldn't we have something significant to say about true spirituality that is not twisted and deformed by the rational, scientific worldview? That may be hard, because we are like fish in water, barely aware of the worldview we live in. If we truly have not chased the Spirit into a book, then we can allow him to work powerfully in our lives, putting flesh on what we read about in scripture. In essence, we become a continuation of the story of scripture because God is still powerfully at work today.
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