Experience
is risky. It can shatter your world-view. It can even kill you in
some cases. And sometimes it's that possibility that makes it
worthwhile.
Now
I'm not advocating bungee-jumping here. But imagine the idiocy of
buying a boat and never sailing it. “But I can't take it away from
the dock, it might sink!” Yes, it might and many have. But if we
weren't actually going to sail the boat, why'd we buy it?
We'd
have been smarter to just buy a picture of a boat, if we didn't want
the actual experience of sailing. But any sailor will tell you
looking at the picture isn't the same thing as being on the boat.
It's a whole different experience.
Imagine
some guy who thought he was a great sailor because he owned 70
pictures of boats, versus an old salt who'd been on the water 70
years? Which do you want as the captain on your next voyage?
So
what about our churches? Do we just hang pictures of Jesus, or do we
actually experience him? It's a risky deal – he might sink our
theology. But the adventure of experiencing God should never be
avoided because of the risk of experiencing God.
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