Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Are you a spiritual schizophrenic? Do you live in two entirely different worlds where spirituality and reality don't ever touch?

That's not the gospel. Jesus came not to invite you out of reality into this thing called spirituality. He came to radically

transform every single piece of your reality by his grace. In today's episode, we will continue

through an old radio series called Survival Skills.

And today's episode is the ninth in the series, and it's called Resist Spirituality.

Check out the show notes to see where you can find the first eight episodes.

Now, here's Paul with Resist Spirituality.

Poor Sally, she was a spiritual schizophrenic, and she didn't even know why. She didn't

know what was wrong with her life. Sally lived in two entirely different worlds. It doesn't

seem possible, but that's exactly what Sally tried. Here's the deal with Sally. Her spirituality never seemed to

touch her world of reality. No one seemed more committed to faith than Sally. There were few

church programs or church activities that didn't have Sally as a primary member. She taught Sunday

school. She participated in the worship team, she led a women's small group,

she had been on several short-term mission trips, she read Christian books voraciously, and she

volunteered all over the place wherever she seemed needed. From a distance, you would think

that Sally was the model Christian. The problem was that Sally's world of spirituality never seemed to touch her world

of reality. With all of her church involvements, no one seemed to know Sally very well. Sally was

always in some kind of conflict at work, and it had been in several jobs in many years.

Sally was in deep debt and outside of the church known more for her criticism than for

her encouragement. Now think about this. If you viewed Sally outside of her church life, you would

probably describe her as a loner who was driven and unfulfilled. Look at these two worlds.

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