The Avatar State of Spirituality (Air vs. Earth)



Just like every church  is one nation under God, serving towards a similar goal, the Air Nomads and the Earth Kingdom played a critical part in Avatar: The Last Airbender. The two fictional nations banded together in the universe to upset the tyrannical reign of the Fire Nation.

The beauty here is that both these sides are entirely antithetical. Air can be light and lithe, earth on the other hand is intrinsically heavy, rigid and ungracious. But together they made for some of the most dynamic fighting the animated series ever provided (just look at the fights between Toph and Aang). Two variant nations that shared an Avatar and an Earth King in common seem like an odd pairing, but nothing unites more than a mutual enemy.


Yet in today's world the liberalistic church of grace and the older, more conservative church are at cross hairs, constantly pointing their fingers at the noses of each other, spotting the holes in their opposing theologies. That's why Pentecostals think the Catholics are religious and the Catholics believe the Pentecostals are paving a good intentioned road to hell (of course this is not to say that every single person in each group is guilty of this). They've got an enemy and a sole benefactor in common, but the devil and Christ aren't enough to bind these two, someone's gotta be right and someone's gotta be wrong.


                                                            The Robes vs The Suits
So why can't these two nations get along? Well proverbs proffers pride as the source of all contention. Neither side is willing to admit that the other gets some results, and that the conservatives don't entirely disregard grace, and the liberals don't entirely disregard law. I read an A.W Tozer book, that with powerful diction aimed at convincing me that alotta the worship music these days is founded in Eros. That they are a perversion of the God-man relationship as being akin to a man-woman relationship. But then earth and wind-parts of the bible may have described the Christians relationship with God as being sacred, one of awe and reverence, but parts of it also allude that it is similar to the relationship between a man and his bride.


Andrew Wommack calls this imbalance in study. The Christian forgets that not only is he a bender (specialised in one aspect of Gods personality), he is an Avatar (studied in all, approved in all, able to rightfully divide the word of God.) So he gets fixed in an aspect of scripture forgetting the other. He believes works without faith, or faith without works. Rest without labour, or labour without rest. The outside world perceives all of this as the Bible being contradictory, whereas the Christian is like the Avatar, the spiritual leader that is supposed to bring balance to it all.


So finally, what is the Avatar state of spirituality? It is one of those things that are better lived than described, inaccurately defined and better exemplified. It is Billy Graham, reaching the outstanding number of people he did in ministry. It is Joseph Prince, cutting through barriers and showing grace is power and not weakness. It is TD Jakes presenting the word of God in such a way that even your carnal mind couldn't reject it. It is every open air crusade that saw thousands healed. It is Oyedepo, it is Adeboye, it is every and anyone who even for the briefest moment and ranging from the most flamboyant (raising the dead) to the most minute way (giving alms to beggars), manifested Christ and His will.


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