It’s time for ongoing Bible-based experiential Christianity. The passive Sunday spectator version doesn’t seem to be working very well!
The miracle of Bible-based experiential Christianity drives out despair and replaces it with inner healing and joy. Spectator Christianity has little to offer other than a religious show, but Bible-based experiential Christianity abounds with hope and power!
The New Testament isn’t a systematic set of teachings like the Old Testament laws. It is testimonies and accounts and words of encouragement, exhortation, and explanation from Spirit-led people who lived out ongoing experiential Christianity and filtered their experiences through the Scriptures to avoid demonic deception.
Here’s hope for the “burning house” of our culture: I woke up today with this poem being written on my heart:
Make room
For gladness . . .
Drive out
Sadness
By greatly appreciating,
Madness
By always forgiving,
And badness
By deeply repenting.
Jesus has given us the right and the authority to cast out the inner demons that make us downcast and to refuse to let them torment or influence us again! He calls us to confess our sins, to experience God’s forgiveness and freedom, to go spread His love, and to sin no more as we let the Spirit ever lead us by God’s still small voice within our heart.
The purposelessness of our consumer culture is keeping multitudes of people downcast with discouragement, despair, and depression. Consumerism is meaningless. It never fully satisfies and always leaves people wanting more. Only the risen Jesus can satisfy a human heart.
Bible-based
Experiential Christianity
Is the hope of humanity.
It can overcome our vanity
And restore us to sanity
Much more effectively
Than mere churchianity.
Continually seek God’s face
And His amazing grace.
Let Him replace
Any hardness in your heart
With “Christ in you”
And remove every trace
Of pride and rebellion
As He leads you
By His pace
And not your own.
2 Chronicles 7:14.
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A plea for less sensuality and more sensitivity
Sensuality is about the feelings of the body. Sensitivity is about the feelings of the heart and conscience. Our self-focused culture is full of sensuality but the open expression of heart-felt sensitivity to conscience is rare.
Sensitivity to your conscience isn’t a weakness. It’s a strength that many people don’t have.
Sensuality is focused on self-gratification. Sensitivity is focused on kindness for others and speaking the truth in love. ‘
People who are easily offended are self-focused and insensitive to the fact that “hurt people hurt people.” True sensitivity has such compassion for other people that it’s not easily offended.
Society today focuses almost totally on sensuality while mostly ignoring sensitivity. Our culture is in trouble because following the feelings and desires of the body is seen as strength, while having a sensitive conscience is seen as a weakness.
Just because someone has a desire to do something doesn’t make it the right thing to do! The strength or weakness of a desire has nothing to do with the morality of a desire.
To refuse to notice what your conscience is saying opens the door of your life to much self-destruction and self-deception. To be sensually minded is to be a prisoner of your desires and feelings. Sensual desire is often deceptive. Many of our sensual desires need to be resisted and rejected, not justified and embraced.
Uncontrolled sensual desire leads to the bondage of compulsion. Putting sensuality above sensitivity leads to many human problems such as, drug abuse, alcoholism, overeating, other addictions, divorce. hatred, violence, abortion, casual sex, pornography, sex trafficking, child abuse, fraud, corruption, etc.
Sensual desires want to dominate and dictate your life. Don’t let them. Follow and obey the risen Jesus instead. Sensuality asks, “What do I want to do?” Sensitivity asks, “What does the risen Jesus want me to do?”
To be led by the living Jesus you need to begin to be aware of and sensitive to His presence. He wants His followers to be led by His Spirit not by their desires! See Romans 8:14.
Sensuality can never permanently satisfy the longing of the human heart, but awareness of and surrender to the living Jesus does! Look where following your own desires has gotten you inside and out. Following the risen Jesus has to be an improvement.
“Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality.” Ephesians 4:19. Turning away from the sensuality of our human desires, feelings, and opinions and keeping our heart wide open to the presence, intimacy, and Lordship of the risen Jesus is the great miracle all humans need.
Whether governments acknowledge it or not, sensitivity and compassion declare that a human fetus is a human life and is of no less value than any other human life. Medicine heals or treats illness. Pregnancy isn’t an illness. Sensitivity to conscience recognizes that abortion pills are not medicine.