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A Ansiedade de "Não Orar o Suficiente" e a Cultura da Comparação Dentro da Própria Fé

  Você já se sentiu culpado por acordar e perceber que passaram três dias desde sua última oração "de verdade"? Vivemos numa cultura cristã cada vez mais influenciada pela lógica das redes sociais — mesmo dentro dos muros da igreja. Comparamos nosso tempo devocional com o de outros irmãos, medimos nossa espiritualidade pela quantidade de versículos memorizados, pela duração do nosso silêncio diante de Deus, pela "consistência" da nossa disciplina espiritual exibida — às vezes, até publicamente. Primeiramente, precisamos reconhecer algo desconfortável: transformamos a graça em performance. E, quando isso acontece, a oração — que deveria ser respiro — se torna mais uma métrica de autoavaliação ansiosa. O Fenômeno: Espiritualidade Como Vitrine de Desempenho Nas comunidades cristãs digitais, é comum encontrarmos publicações de diários de oração, capturas de tela de aplicativos bíblicos com "sequências" de dias consecutivos de leitura, testemunhos de vi...

Bonds of Love

 The lack of empathy between people seems an evil that is growing. Is that what Jesus meant when he asked "Will I find faith on earth when I return?" (Luke 18:8). Either way, love is fading even among those people who claims to be a separated people. And that love is what often creates faith in people. But thank God it is not general. Because there is still a people we can really find something true and sincere. Where lies and slander do not proliferate. It is a rare people! They are out there, are not blood relatives, but often understand us better than those. Can you see beyond what meets the eye. And even hear the words left unsaid. The Bible teaches: "Some friendships do not last anything but a true friend is closer than a brother" (Proverbs 18:24). Sometimes our enemies are right next to us, inside our homes. Having veins the same blood flows in our. Psychologist Maria Tereza Maldonato has an interesting phrase where it says: "Bonds of love can be created without the ties of blood. Plus, blood ties do not guarantee the existence of the bonds of love. " We must revise our concepts, our values ​​and our beliefs. What really matters in the world that I have devised for me? But is this the question to be asked? Or is there another? Or should we ask what really matters in my life and that serves to satisfy the purposes of God? It may well be that I get to focus not on my ideals, but ideals of God for me. It can happen that suddenly I find that my world is not mine, that my life is not mine and that everything I do while alive, despite help me live, I'm doing to accomplish the purposes that God envisioned for me, and that He expects me to honor them, because "I am crucified with Christ and live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me , and gave himself for me. " (Galatians 2:20). That should be enough for me to build my life in various bonds of love.

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