The problem comes when we mistake the vessel for the treasure, for the treasure is the life and power of Jesus Christ. We have to have a form of life, a vessel, a "spirituality," if you wish. None of us are given to be entirely spiritual beings now. Being bodily and therefore social is a part of us. I will eternally be the son of my parents. I will always be the son of Albert and Mamie Willard. And I will always be the person who was brought up in the First Baptist Church of Buffalo, Missouri, and the First Baptist Church of Willow Springs, Missouri, and Shiloh Baptist Church in Rover, Missouri. I thank God for all that. But to make that spirituality my life—that's the point at which I may begin to think that being a good Baptist is more important than being a good Chris tian, than being obedient with my whole person to Jesus Christ. At that point I am back in flesh and have become spiritually off balance.
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