Title: Let's Restore the Spirituality of Resurrection
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＞Article ｜ Let's restore the spirituality of resurrection
These days, many people say that 'jumbo work' is fashionable. When it comes to election season, such as the presidential election or the election of the head of a local group, or when there is an anxious event, you have to stand in line to interview the so-called popular fortune tellers. Not only that. The youngsters say that three or three jumbos are looking for houses and relying on computers to see various types of divination.
In the past, 'jumbo work' was thought to be a privilege given only to shamans who were possessed by gods, but these days, there are an ignorant number of fortune tellers men and women who have graduated from prestigious universities, and there are many people who want to learn it and go on to work. Why are these anomalies happening?
Of course, the causes can be analyzed from various angles, but in general, people who have experienced economic difficulties due to the IMF, people who suffer from various diseases, people who are spiritually dry and thirsty, and people who live in an uncertain future due to the collapse of ideology It is also speculated that it is because of vague expectations and wishes of In other words, negative elements of life such as social chaos, denial of social leaders, robbery, extortion, fraud, and violence lead to anxiety, and as a way to overcome, escape from real life such as spiritual mysteries, miracles, prophecies, and ups and downs. is to choose
If so, is this social phenomenon taking a step back for people in the church? I can never say that.
False teachings in some churches today lead members into commercialism and materialism. Healing, prophesying, and knocking back (?) tend to be understood as spirituality that shows the power of the mystery. They focus on miracles and have an interest in attracting people.
So, it makes you fall into the beliefs of reliefism. Leaving behind the spirituality of the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, they understand only visible phenomena as a mystical spirituality, making the mistake of justifying the means for the ends, apart from their actual lives.
When spirituality becomes escaping or negative because it is separated from our present life, such spirituality is bound to become lame. True Christian spirituality is a life centered on the resurrected Jesus Christ, training in the Holy Spirit, and participation in God's work of salvation through community.
If any one of these three elements is lost, spirituality becomes an extraterrestrial or otherworldly story. Therefore, the correct understanding of spirituality must be found in the process of one continuous life, in which the relationship between God and man is properly established and we become like Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.
When life changes occur in this process, we call it the “spirituality of the resurrection” of Christ. If we do not connect the event of the resurrection of Jesus Christ with our concrete present life, that is, if we do not respond to it with the conviction and confession of our faith, our spiritual reality will become a life of ups and downs without responsibility for our own lives. It is no different from 'jumbo work'.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a sign of victory over the present life. Restoring the spirituality of the resurrection of the “victor Jesus Christ” is to keep the true vitality of moving forward to the hope of the future rather than the despair of the past in the present life.
Even if all the realities that are happening around us are going through a dark, annoying, and visionless tunnel of despair, even if we are full of desire to leave this land, let's not be discouraged or discouraged.
Let's recover the spirituality of resurrection that we lost in our place of 'here and now'! Like the two disciples on the road to Emmaus who met the resurrected Jesus (refer to Luke 24), we will experience a new life of hope and victory. It is because we can sing a hymn of joy saying, “Your eyes are opened and your heart is warm.... The Lord has risen.”