The Church & Spiritual Growth

Blessing or Curse?

This is the fourth and final article in my series “Spiritual Adulting: Becoming Responsible and Going Deep”. I will start a new series next month.

In my mid-20s, I considered myself “spiritual but not religious”. I  loved to talk about spirituality. In fact, I talked about it so much that one night, while we were having a few beers, my roommate said, "Bo, you take the spirituality stuff very seriously. Have you ever considered becoming a priest?"

To this, I replied, "No, because organized religion is everything I stand against".

(I obviously had no idea of the twist that was coming to my life.)

Back then when I thought of the church, all I really saw was greed and the quest for power. Televangelists were selling miracles. Oral Roberts even said that God was going to kill him if his followers didn't raise 8 million dollars. 

I still have issues with those peddling spiritual snake oil. But, regarding religion in general, since then I have changed my tune…somewhat.