Empty spirituality
June 2003

"Missing ingredient" by Eugene Peterson. The Christian Century, Mar 22, 2003 (Vol 120, No 6). Pages 30-37. 

The missing component in today's pervasive spirituality is often one word--Jesus.
Today's concept of spirituality is that of a mostly abstract and often trivialized commodity in which God is reduced to an object, idea, or project useful to man. Without the involvement of Jesus, that spirituality communicates little of the sense of life and breath implicit in God and His Spirit. Jesus gives God-breathed life, muscle, sinews, shape, and form to spirituality because His name means "God saves."