for Religious Educators Greg Sunter Evangelisation amp Spiritual Formation What is Spirituality Spirituality is about what we do with the fire inside of us the inner yearning a quest for ultimate meaning in the face of death Spirituality searches for a relationship with God a sense of tr ID: 659332
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REAP CU9 Spiritual Formation for Religious Educators
Greg Sunter
Evangelisation & Spiritual FormationSlide2
What is Spirituality?Slide3
Spirituality is about what we do with the fire inside of us, the inner yearning, a quest for ultimate meaning in the face of death. Spirituality searches for a relationship with God, a sense of transcendence and the sacred. (Kevin
Treston
).Slide4
“Long before we do anything explicitly religious at all, we have to do something about the fire that burns within us. What we do with that fire, how we channel it, is our spirituality. Spirituality is more about whether or not we can sleep at night than about whether or not we go to church. It is about being integrated or falling apart, about being within community or being lonely, about being in harmony with mother earth or being alienated from her. Irrespective of whether or not we let ourselves be consciously shaped by any explicit religious idea, we act in ways that leave us either healthy or unhealthy, loving or bitter, in community or alienated from it. What shapes our actions is our spirituality.”
(
Ron
Rolheiser
,
Seeking Spirituality
)Slide5
What do we mean by spirituality? We each have our images and thoughts about God and our relationship with God. Spirituality is simply the manner in which we allow these images and thoughts to direct the way we live
(
Michael
Morwood
1997).
In the most general sense, by spirituality I mean the ways and patterns by which the person – intellectually, emotionally, and physically – relates to that which is ultimately real and
worthful
for him or her.
(
James Nelson – “The Intimate Connection
”)Slide6
I would describe spirituality as the practice of bodily social, political and personal connectedness so that life comes together in a way that both transcends and includes the bits and pieces that make up our search for wholeness, freedom,
relationality
, and full human dignity.
(
Letty
M Russell
)Slide7
We no longer envision the spiritual life as a way of drifting life in a calm and tranquil sea; rather, we realise it is a voyage under ever-changing conditions. What matters is not so much that we arrive at some destination, but how we make the trip.
(Kathleen Fischer
)Slide8
Spirituality is both a deeply personal and dynamically interpersonal thing. Gerard Broccolo
refers to it as “a way of viewing life and a way of experiencing life.” Thus, spirituality involves our worldview – our way of seeing and hearing, attending to, being aware of the call of God in every aspect of our lives. But it also means experiencing that call, living it out, being responsive and responsible, being a person of action and involvement.
(
Sharon Reed)Slide9
Christian SpiritualitySlide10
Spiritual Formation for Religious Educators
“We teach who we are”
(Parker J Palmer,
The Courage to Teach)Slide11
Spiritual Formation for Religious Educators
You can’t give
what you haven’t got!Slide12
Connecting with MY spirituality
Gateways to SpiritualitySlide13
The relational gateway
The contemplative gateway
The creation gateway
The activist gateway
The intellectual gateway
The worship gatewaySlide14
The relational gatewaySlide15
The contemplative gatewaySlide16
The creation gatewaySlide17
The activist gatewaySlide18
The intellectual gatewaySlide19
The worship gatewaySlide20
The relational gateway
The contemplative gateway
The creation gateway
The activist gateway
The intellectual gateway
The worship gatewaySlide21
BCE Support for personal Spiritual FormationSlide22Slide23Slide24