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1 " Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real? "
― Gregory A. Boyd , Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus Through Imaginative Prayer
2 " In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear. "
3 " Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one’s evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture?”[9 "
4 " For we are only as healthy as our picture of God is accurate. The "
5 " All sin in our life is in one way or another a symptom of our being spiritually wounded, sick, or hungry.To "
6 " At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings. "
7 " For they know the approval—and the worth they assign to this approval— would not be there without certain behaviors on their part. Hence, they never experience unconditional love and worth. Yet, "
8 " effort.While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification. "
9 " addressed.Where the Holy Spirit is moving, sick people will be free to be unhealthy and thus will be free to be healed. Out "
10 " The most important anchor, and therefore our “greatest help and blessing,” St. Teresa noted, is the fact that in Christ God became a man, hence someone we can concretely envision in our minds when we pray. "
11 " The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray. "
12 " kind "
13 " Lying requires a great deal of effort. Honesty is simply the commitment not to do this. The "
14 " The extent to which we experience our freedom from condemnation in Christ is the extent to which we will realize there is no life in performing. "
15 " If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God’s Word to have more credibility than our present feelings. Take "
16 " The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God’s prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.The "
17 " Knowing that something is true does not in and of itself ensure that this truth will make a significant difference in our lives. The "
18 " I believe one of the most pervasive problems in contemporary Western Christianity is that we mistakenly assume that information automatically translates into transformation. "
19 " I ask him to sanctify my imagination and help me experience the real Jesus “with all five senses.” The "
20 " The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone’s identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one’s world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world. "