TURNED INSIDE OUT

We need "an antidote to egocentric spirituality, which flees from the world and neglects the church in a private quest for spiritual perfection ... We cannot attain the fullness of the Spirit without being turned inside out so that our central focus is no longer our own growth, but the glory of God and the growth of Christ's kingdom ... the goal of authentic spirituality is a life which escapes from the closed circle of spiritual self-indulgence, or even self-improvement, to become absorbed in the love of God and other persons ... The substance of real spirituality is love."

RICHARD LOVELACE, RENEWAL AS A WAY OF LIFE.