African scholars have claimed that African peoples are “notoriously religious”. Is this still the case? Empirical literature on the subject is meagre. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the antecedents, triggers and response of secularisation and spirituality among lapsed-Christian young adults in Nairobi, Kenya, the participants were aged between 18 and 35, who were baptised but have abandoned Christian faith in favour of secularisation or non-affiliated spirituality. Qualitative data, from semi-structured in-depth interviews among the 14 participants, sampled through a snowball process, was recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed by the two authors. Eleven emerging themes were identified from 10 hours of data. The first two themes suggest that mixed faith backgrounds of parents and discordant relationship within the family act as antecedents in adopting a […]
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMCHDYBvo8Hp_L8qU3EEhpQDo you seek the God of Consolation or the Consolation of God?
Is your roadmap aligned to the compass?
God has created us in his own image, and has put a desire within us to know Him, to love Him, and to be with Him for ever. That desire is the compass in my heart.
God who has put the compass in my heart has not given me a roadmap. Roadmap is something I create through the choices I make in my life.
True happiness consists in aligning my roadmap to the compass of my heart!