Editorial March 16, 1992 Issue

Who is receptive?

Elaine Natale

As Editors, we come in contact with an array of magazines and newspapers from around the world. These aren't just religious publications. All kinds of news items cross our desks. And one can't help noticing a quiet but unmistakable trend emerging. It's a trend toward spiritual interests—a serious searching for answers and solutions that material approaches aren't providing.

It's as if, in this fast-moving modern world, humanity is more openly questioning some basic material assumptions and asking, in effect, "Isn't there more? Are we just created of matter to be dominated by uncontrollable material forces? Surely we're here for a significant reason, and we're looking for that reason—we're looking for God and for answers about who we really are."

Sometimes a person's conscious search has led to insights that are amazingly clear and that have changed the whole course of his or her life. Other times, the message is found between the lines or it's cast in words that don't at first sound especially spiritual, yet with closer consideration definitely indicate spiritual reasoning and purpose. Of course, there are opposite trends of thought surfacing, too. It's not possible to unaware of how pervasive a materialistic view of life still seems to be. Yet, for Christians committed to ministering to the world, taking stock of our perceptions is important. Are we unwittingly underestimating the degree of spiritual receptivity around us—not fully appreciating the spiritual searching and hungering going on?

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