"Most Christians suffer at some point from a serious disease. This disease is called SSD. If you want to know if you've caught SSD, then listen to your words and look at your actions.
You have the disease SSD if you say things like:
* I know it's poor ethics but business is business;
* God is best found in the church and least found in the secular world;
* I'm not called to live by the same standards as my pastor;
* Or if you belong to a church where you have never heard a sermon on the workplace, but you have tapes in your library that include the series on the measurements of the tabernacle.
That's SSD - The sacred-secular divide!
The belief that some parts of our lives - business ethics, our school, our leisure, our work - are secular and are less important to God than things that are "sacred" - like prayer, church, pastors.
SSD means that we translate the beatitudes like this
* Blessed are th super spiritual on Sundays!
* Blessed are the peacemakers, unless they attack me first!"
Steve Taylor, Baptist Minister, scholar & author
The above is part of a series of reflections - words that have inspired and challenged me along my own particular journey...
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