Now,, church community life becomes somewhat like a boxing ring where we come into the center for periods of time and then go back to our corners to get patched up at the end of the day. Is that harsh? I don't think so. I don't think so. I listen as I travel and hear story after story of broken lives and shattered optimism. Is there an answer here? Yes, I believe there is. Here I borrow from a metaphor used by a former Muslim. He described for me the two ways of looking at life and religious commitment. “ In the West, if life is illustrated by a circle, then a small dot somewhere inside that circle is religion. Life is the ends, belief the means. For the Muslim, by contrast, religion is defined by the circle and a small dot somewhere in the middle is life. One's personal faith is the ends; life is the means.” In other words, what defines what? What circumscribes what? Until we see reality ordered in the way God has designed it to be, we will always become imitators of the world with a pseudospirituality and a cosmetic faith. - Ravi Zacharias
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I think to remain maintaining an active church community life, one needs a lot of motivation, encouragement and support from their Christian friends and also from the encouragement and renewal by the Word of God.
To be honest, no matter how much you like boxing, if you don't have the support of your friends and family who also like boxing to keep urging you to go back to the center of the boxing ring, your enthusiasm towards returning to the center will inevitably die.
In fact, the more you are away from the Christian community, the easier to treat church community life as a boxing ring. There can come a point when one will view that church life is redundant and maybe the whole belief is redundant.
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