The Balance.

In class on Tuesday we were talking essentially about balance in the life ignited by our reading of Aristotle. As we discussed different examples of ways one can live an unbalanced life I really found I agreed with it. Life in the broad spectrum is a balance. One has to balance work and pleasure. One has to balance their emotions so one is not too emotional crying because a pen fell on the ground or apathetic watching as children die and not showing the slightest compassion.

Ever since my 8th grade confirmation class I've always had an interesting view of the balanced Christian lifestyle. My teacher drew a pendulum on the board and explained that the church bounces back and forth between two extreme focuses and we as a church as well as the church as a whole needed to find a balance. Ever since I have understood many concepts within Christianity and life with this "pendulum effect". For example pride and self hatred both negative with a middle ground of humility and sometimes in out effort to seek humility we bypass humility and end up in prideful self hatred.

One aspect of this brought up within class was the question of "luke warm Christianity" this I believe is a non issue. Because the balance of Christianity only includes Christians. Therefore, the the extremes become judgmentally pridefully righteous living and apathy (luke warm Christians) as opposed to non Christians and overly righteous Christians being the extremes making luke warm the undesired middle.

Did that make sense?