Continuing from yesterday, if a person goes into a recovery meeting and that person hears about someone else's experience in overcoming an addictive behavior, the newcomer has information. They may continue to come to meetings for awhile, but unless they have their own experience of recovery through the program offered, they will not keep coming. It is the same way in church and religion. Who goes to church to get information? A homily that is informational does not do much for your faith. If all the homilies are about, "What Holy Mother Church teaches about..." you will lose a lot of people, not because they might disagree but because they are not being fed on an experiential level. If we are supposed to love God with all our mind, heart, body and soul, the mind is only one quarter of our whole self. Being Westerners we tend to make the mind, the world of ideas and information be about ninety eight percent of religion. People hunger in their whole selves to feel the love of God. God's love is unconditional, not based upon a rule or law that we keep or break. The Love is the Good News. It is too infrequently proclaimed, and thus one of my religion's best kept secrets.
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