New City Church Sydney

A Dis-Embodied Faith


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Connecting with ourselves again - Its week two of our series, Reravelled. In the stories of people who have left their churches, we commonly hear the phrase I realised how disconnected from my body I was or Im learning to trust myself again. This disembodied version of Christianity often comes in the form of a heady intellectual faith, where theres an emphasis on words and thoughts, rather than on being and doing. Or where ideas and doctrines trump peoples lived experiences (how many people can resonate with the experience of being told this is me loving you when it didnt feel like you were being loved?). For many of us we have been taught to distrust our brains and bodies and put our faith in the church, or the churchs construction of what it means to know God. Today we unravel and reravel a dis-embodied faith and explore what it means to connect with ourselves again.
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