2006-10-31 04:45:11 · 13 answers · asked by Angelique 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You do one for salvation the other out of obedience
2006-10-31 04:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by Messenger 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't need a church to seek spiritual growth or wisdom and chances are you won't find that in a church. Churches are for group worship and commiseration with your fellow believers. It's like belonging to a special club where those who aren't like you can be excluded.
Spiritual seeking, on the other hand, is a solitary activity wherein you discover who *you* are in relation to all that is, and you cultivate your personal relationship with deity (or not - depending on beliefs).
You can be a spiritual person without being a religious or church going person.
2006-10-31 12:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The difference is what you make it. Spiritual seeking is not something that can be catergorized, as most churches do. Churches have rules, where spiritual, non dogmatic believers have spirit. In which this is the ultimate guide. Church may be where you begin. BUt in the end it gives no answers, but more questions. And it is then that you find the answers within yourself
I wish you well
2006-10-31 12:53:25 · answer #3 · answered by fryedaddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every church is a little different. Some churches actively encourage spiritual seekers and some are actively forbidding it. It doesn't always fall neatly along denominational lines either. Spiritual seekers are people who are trying to get at the real and absolute God or gods (or goddesses) they believe exist behind all of the human trappings that surround religion. Churches vary considerably.
2006-10-31 12:53:07 · answer #4 · answered by Huey from Ohio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you do when you spiritual seek and what you do when you go to Church. Christ is the head of Church and we have the opportunity to be the body. Think of us as arms and legs. We're the part that reaches out and touches the world. Does being spiritual make you a part of the body of Christ or are you just in your own little world? Of course there are those people who just "go to church" who are still in their own little worlds.
2006-10-31 12:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Going to church is okay but do not help one seek spiritual things. The spiritual comes from when one has accepted salvation and or seeking the Lord thy God. Mankind cannot understand the deep things of God that are spirtually defined to christians.
2006-10-31 12:51:22 · answer #6 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual seeking may begin in church but as you progress you leave 'church' behind. Church constrains most spiritual growth, seeking is done on your own.
2006-10-31 12:50:13 · answer #7 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Going to church is just that. You go to church to commune with fellow believers and listen to a sermon. Spiritual seeking is going to God/Christ for salvation. In fact, you can do both; go to church and seek God, which is why people go to church in the first place.
2006-10-31 12:49:22 · answer #8 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual seeking is honestly looking for the truth. Sadly, there are many churchgoers who are just going through the motions.
2006-10-31 12:50:09 · answer #9 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't quite understand your question. I did not find what i sought in a christian church,god sent me a siddha yoga guru,swami muktananda paramahamsa,he baptized with spirit,now i can discern the things of God and know that I am no longer a sinner. I know of no church that has a living saint who can baptize with spirit an with fire. AS far as i can tell by appearances & people tell me they are sinners,then they are not baptized in spirit.
2006-10-31 13:00:21 · answer #10 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are religious (go to church), you believe.
When you are spiritual (personal relationship), you know.
You can be one or the other, or both.
2006-10-31 12:48:32 · answer #11 · answered by sugarfoot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋