Practicalities

Sometimes we get so caught up in the "spirituality" of everything we forget to think about whether things are actually practical.

But would there really be an example in the Bible of that?
After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. 23 Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. (John 3:22-23 NIV)
Yes! That's exactly why John baptizes where he does. John is a significant example of this because here's a guy who really could have been tied up in the spiritual matters, he'd received a calling from God directly (well his mother did and the Holy Spirit fills him even in the womb) and he is sent to prepare the way of God for Jesus' coming, he really could have got in to this spiritual stuff. John could have headed t the Jordan and baptized in the exact spot the Israelites crossed over in to Israel, as a symbol of preparing God's entry to the promised land, that would have been some cool spiritual symbolism. But he doesn't do that! Why? Because that would have been a distraction, he goes to a place where the people were coming and he baptizes them there because funnily enough there's plenty of water there, he can tell his message of one coming greater than him, he can give a baptism of repentance and all without a distraction of this supposed spirituality.

Rob Bell said "everything is spiritual" and he is right, but if EVERYTHING is spiritual we don't need to be so caught up in trying to make everything super spiritual we miss the point, everything holds that. We too often let ourselves get distracted by making some super enlightened spiritual point that we miss the opportunity to share the Gospel with others, let us never forget the practicalities of ministry.