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Today we continue a series we hope has been helpful to you and your family so far.

In this series, entitled On Being Human, we're working through four parts of what it means to be human.

Four areas of life where a man or a woman can pursue excellence, fruitfulness, virtue, and honor.

The physical, the spiritual, the social, the vocational. In the physical, we talked about the body,

physical fitness, nutrition, appearance, and generally taking care of ourselves in such a way as to be

able to do our duties in the body with joy. The last few episodes have covered this topic.

In the spiritual, which we move into with this episode,

we're talking about personal piety and virtue,

spiritual disciplines, and the whole-souled pursuit of the life of faith.

In the social, we'll be talking about social graces, emotional aptitude,

friendliness, hospitality, and more.

The art and science of being a normal and

likable person who is not super weird and awkward. And in the vocational, we'll talk about achievement,

about pursuing excellence in your work, whatever it is that God has put in front of you. Like I said,

today we move into the life of the spirit, the life of the soul. In this episode, we are going to lay out

five contrasting spiritual conditions that you might find yourself in, oriented around the metaphor

of the physical body, basically using the physical body as an analogy for the soul. Let me lay these

contrasting conditions out now, and I think you'll follow where we're going. Spiritually speaking,

you can be dead or alive. You can be spiritually dead in Spiritually speaking, you can be dead or alive.

You can be spiritually dead in your sins or you can be alive in Christ. Healthy or sick. You can be

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