" respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don’t know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes. "

― John Eldredge , Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus