Living an Integrated Life (my sermon from July 10, 2016)
Scripture James 2:14-26 A blogger I used to follow name Jon Acuff coined this phrase “Booty, God, Booty.” He was living in Atlanta at the time and he used this phrase to talk about this rap station that he listened to that had an “inspirational vitamin” every morning at a specific time. And he said these inspirational vitamins were often quite powerful, and included a scripture and a gospel song, but something he noticed was that they didn’t change their regular music around this time. So they would play a song like “In love with a stripper” followed by their inspirational vitamin and then go right back into a similar song. Booty. God. Booty. He talked about how this was obvious and weird on the radio station, but we also often live that way. We come to church on Sunday, but what are we doing on Saturday night? And Monday morning? This summer we have been talking about the Marks of a Meaningful Life, and one mark of a meaningful life is an integrated life. Living our faith in the