"The Holy Spirit is the Dunamis of Heaven. An encounter with God is often a power encounter. Such encounters vary from person to person according to God's design . And it's the lack of power encounters that leads to a misunderstanding of God and his Word. Experience is necessarry to build a true knowledge of the Word." - Bill Johnson.
How faith works appears to be deeply connected to the way we do life with God. It would appear to be the experiential nature of our encounters with God that bring about the continuing development of Faith. It is the development of the encounters of God over time that build real relationship. To be a true disciple of Jesus Christ we need to be in relationship with him, and the rest of the Trinty, beyond doing a daily reading and saying the odd prayer.
Knowing God beyond the single plane of reading about Him, is to have regular interactions with God in a variety of forms that you understand. This would appear to crucial in the development of a faith that will survive in the rigours of the 21st century. This is a very similar time to setting of The Book Acts where most concepts are acceptable or at least have a right to be spoken. In the Book of Acts it was the power encounters with God that built faith, that changed the world.
If we are going to have faith that will survive the test of our culture and flourish we need to encounter and have realationship with the living GOD.
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