Obsession
Posted by t on 30 July, 2008
I wonder if it’s too easy in our 12 step culture to mix up addiction with obsession – or maybe there’s an overlap.
For many years, we went about our lives doing good ministry. We were motivated by teens, Jesus, relationships, the Kingdom, but the undercurrent, the obsession, was not Jesus but finance: raising support and paying the rent. As much as we were known as a great ministry family – Godly and loving and hospitable- we were really a family obsessed with money. It didn’t negate the good stuff but it became the (pretty big) thorn in an otherwise wonderful family life.
More recently it’s been the awful stuff going on in our local church leadership. We’ve just today agreed to stop letting the subject creep into every single conversation as there’s only so much church that one marriage can take!
Not the stuff of a good movie plot – I’d guess most obsessions are relatively banal.
