About Spirituality Versus Carnality

As Victory Christian Fellowship Church, we believe: -

Carnality (comes from the word for flesh, sarkikos) and is the opposite to spirituality.

Carnality often refers to man (and woman) living apart from God’s power and word, whether a believer or unbeliever.

When one lives by his own power, he is living by his human fallen nature, which works through the flesh or body.

The believer who lives by his human nature instead of by the Holy Spirit is said to be carnal (1 Corinthians 3:1-3).

There is always a conflict between the flesh and the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-21).

The works of the flesh are sins/sinful. Personal sin takes one out of spirituality and moves them into carnality.

Confession of sin to God and true repentance restores the believer to walking in the light, to fellowship (1 John 1), and to walking by the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5)

A believer needs the Holy Spirit to live correctly. This is because a believer can be either spiritual or carnal. We continue on living by the Holy Spirit by faith.

Spirituality is attained through a believer’s walk with the Spirit, by not grieving the spirit, and by quenching not the spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19, Ephesians 4:30; Galatians 5:16, 6:1,1 John 1).