Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lilgidding Prima facie Pentecostal _experience_ flys so far under the radar of mainstream reification of the flow of the spirit, even the basic premise of this discussion illuminates the anesthetized heart of theological abstraction. Perhaps try a bona fide street church and report back?

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Quoted by@BrianZahnd @Stu0Miller 4/ Along the way, I've been consistently taken aback by the metaphysical power, integrity and ubiquity of a broad array of psyche-technes disregarded by received theological perspectives and epistemologies. Among the kind poor, hillbillies have driven me habitually to church.Quoted by@publicroad Christo-nationalism? Obscene. But goodness, how little understood is the essence of evangelical _experience_ - the felt, transcendent oneness of corporate, as distinct from individual prayer, for example - by ‘higher church’ folk. That alone, vital to a life-affirming ecumene.