Hunger

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Jon L Dybdahl. Hunger

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A Strange Place for Grace:

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All of these factors help us understand why there has developed such a hunger to meet God. The form of Christianity that has controlled the mainstream of the church in the West has leaned too far toward the side of the cognitive, intellectual explanation of Christianity. It should come then as no surprise that many Christians, even lifelong believers, crave anything that will help them experience God. This also explains why the charismatic/pentecostal forms of Christianity are by far the fastest-growing parts of the Christian church. The very essence of this movement is that God’s Spirit is active in the world and the life of the believer, and thus people with an experiential hunger often find fulfillment there.

It also explains why more and more people in the West have sought a religious experience in belief systems other than Christianity. The Christianity that they have seen or heard about is often the mainstream intellectual sort that strikes them as dry, boring, and irrelevant. The latest guru or New Age teaching is very often primarily propagating an experience of religion rather than a doctrine about God. Increasingly, postmodern people and others hunger for the direct touch of the divine.

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