“ The Christian life is not about pleasing God the fingershaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. ”
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“ ... rather than God being "out there" in the heights, God is known in the depths of personal experience. ”
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“ Resurrection" does not mean resumption of previous existence but entry into a different kind of existence. ”
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“ One must die to an old way of being in order to enter a new way of being... salvation is resurrection to a new way of being here and now. ”
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“ The relationship among faith, knowledge, and belief is suggested by a story involving the famous depth psychologist Carl Jung. In the last year of his life, he was interviewed for a BBC television documentary. The interviewer asked him, "Dr. Jung, do you believe in God?" Jung said, "Believe? I do not believe in God I know." The point: the more one knows God, the less faith as belief is involved. But faith as belief still has a role: it can provide a basis for responding even when one does not know for sure, and it can also get one through periods of time in which firsthand experiences of God are lacking. ”
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