{A Secular Church in a Religious World (1)}[31st December 1989]

 [Redbook7:[1-]2-3][19891231:1830]{A Secular Church in a Religious World (1)}[31st December 1989]

19811231.1830

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{Volume VII}

{NoteBook(/Journal)}

{19891231 – 19900930}

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When I wrote that my ‘decision’ regarding the Church was best left to God,* I had in mind simply continuing with the bureaucratic entry procedures until I was rejected, or not – ie on the assumption that God would work through the Church’s procedures. This places great faith in the Church. But I wrote in terms of the Divine Point within, and that suggests a profound inner resolution to the crisis.

Such a resolution, although it may be considered rationally, cannot be considered rational. So all conscious consideration and comparison of external factors, however relevant they appear to be, is irrelevant. The crucial point is the Quality of each course: how it feels coming from within. And I must say, having placed the matter in ‘God’s hands’, that although reason argues persuasively both for and against the Church – and although many of the elements found both inside and outside the Church (such as helping, and teaching) seem strongly indicated by the inspirational quality attached to their consideration – at present, the quality of rightness, of wholeness, of integrity, attaches to our secular plans: to leave [CH], and find a house with a little shop in a small town; not to go into the Church.

*[See last previous entry but one, [Redbook6:364][19891219:0022]{Non nobis Domine....}[19th December 1989]]

{The last previous entry is Vol VI, p365, on 19891226(/30)}

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