|
The Life You've Always Wanted
John Ortberg with wit and wisdom describes the many ways God loves us.
Buy Now!
Amazon.com,
Barnes&Noble,
Christianbook.
Life On The Edge
Dr. James Dobson provides a young adult's guide to a meaningful future. This book reflects his life's work.
Buy Now!
Amazon.com,
Barnes&Noble,
Christianbook.
Fresh Faith Jim Cymbala shares from his
experiences as Pastor of the Brooklyn Tablernacle to encourage Christians
to grab hold all faith's possibilities!
Buy Now!
Amazon.com,
Barnes&Noble,
Christianbook.
Featured Pages
Bless Us, Indeed!
Do It Now!
Stay Away!
We Don't Fool Around!
Loyalty Never Retires!
|
Is The Bible Unreal?
Dallas Willard, Hearing God, Developing a Conversational Relationship with God,
InterVarsity Press, 1984, 1993, 1999, pp. 35, 36.
SoAmazing.com
Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0830822267
Keywords: Bible, record, study, real, unreal, experience, experiences, experiential,
doctrine, faith, abstract truth, truth, hearing, medicine, listening, Christian, God is
alive, God, InterVarsity Press, Willard, Dallas Willard
"It we are really to understand the
Bible record, we must enter into our study of it on the assumption that the experiences
recorded there are basically of the same type as ours would have been if we had been
there. Those who lived through those experiences felt very much as we would have if we
have been in their place. Unless this comes home to us, the things that happened to the
people in the Bible will remain unreal to us. We will not genuinely be able to believe
the Bible or find its contents to be real, because it will have no experiential substance
for us.
Failure to read the Bible in this realistic manner accounts for two common problems in
Christian groups that hold the Bible central to their faith. One is that it becomes
simply a book of doctrine, of abstract truth about God, which one can search endlessly
without encountering God himself or hearing his voice. . . .
The other problem that arises . . . is that we simply stop reading the Bible altogether.
Or else we take it in regular doses, choking it down like medicine because someone told us
that it would be good for us--though we really do not find it to be so."
SoAmazing Review: Dallas Willard believes we can know
God and hear his voice. In Hearing God he tells us how.
Hover and/or Clickle
There are seven Bible verses on this page. Check them out. Each one links to a colorful SoAmazing Card.
When you find a book that intrigues you, you can buy it online. Right now! Each book cover graphic is
always a live link to the book at an online bookseller. So is the title information next to the
bookcover and there are more links at the bottom of each quotation. Clickle any one of the links.
Join the crowds becoming participating members of SoAmazing.com and enjoy reading
our award winning, free-by-email SoAmazing Letter! Clickle the Signup button below, right now!
|