Somehow, Christianity has become a non-mystical religion. It's about a reasonable faith. If we believe the right things, then we are orthodox. Frankly, whether we ever actually connect to God or experience, His undeniable presence has become incidental, it not irrelevant. We have become believers rather than experiencers. To know God, the Scriptures always went beyond information to intimacy. We may find ourselves uncomfortable with this reality. We become connected to the God of eternity. Who you are at the core is spirit. God is spirit. To walk with God is to journey in the spiritual realm.
From The Barbarian Way by Erwin Raphael McManus
To All the Women I’ve Known
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I grew up in a conservative community, on a grape vineyard in Central
California. In life and sports, making jokes at the expense of girls and
women was ...
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