Why Not God for God
A sad state of a growing epidemic emerges, as Willard in "THE SPIRIT OF THE DISCIPLINES", possess the question, "Isn't the most generally applied standard of success for a religious service whether or not the people feel good in it and after it? This "feel good" mentality as sweeping through the landscape with preeminence leaves a distasteful residue in my mouth. I'm disgusted by the "feel good" is it fun mentality. Throw it away with the trash, it stinks and it leaves us momentarily induced and preoccupied with self-centered focus.
According to Willard, "the preeminence of the "feel good" mentality in our world makes it impossible for many people now even to imagine what Paul and his contemporaries accepted as a fact of life (rigorous discipline)." As I peer into what appears in some circles as a dying community I witness a thickly populated people who as Willard calls it, "are neurotic or paralyzed by their devotion and willing bondage to how they feel."
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